India & China Going Through ‘Bad Patch’ In Bilateral Ties, Beijing Violates Agreement: Jaishankar
Tension between the two nations escalated after a deadly clash in Galwan valley on June 15 last year
Mumbai: Speaking at a panel, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said that India and China are going through a bad patch in their bilateral ties as Beijing has taken a set of actions in violation of agreements.
The Minister revealed that China has no “credible explanation” for violating agreements and it is for the Chinese leadership to answer where they want to take the bilateral relationship.
Responding to a question at a panel “Greater Power Competition: The Emerging World Order” at the Bloomberg New Economic Forum, Jaishankar said, “I don’t think the Chinese have any doubt on where we stand on our relationship and what’s not gone right with it. I’ve been meeting my counterpart Wang Yi a number of times. As you would’ve experienced, I speak fairly clear, reasonably understandably there is no lack of clarity so if they want to hear it I am sure they would have heard it.”
“We are going through a particularly bad patch in our relationship because they have taken a set of actions in violation of agreements for which they still don’t have a credible explanation and that indicates some rethink about where they want to take our relationship, but that’s for them to answer,” he further said, in an apparent reference to the eastern Ladakh border clash with China.
On May 5 last year, the eastern Ladakh border standoff between the Indian and Chinese militaries erupted following a violent clash in the Pangong lake areas.
Following the stand-off, both sides enhanced their deployment by rushing in tens of thousands of soldiers as well as heavy weaponry.
The tension between the two nations further escalated after a deadly crash in Galwan valley on June 15, 2020.
As a result of a series of military and diplomatic talks, the two sides completed the disengagement process in the north and south banks of the Pangong lake in February and in the Gogra area in August.
The last round of military talks ended in a stalemate on October 10.
Meanwhile, on Thursday the two sides agreed to hold the 14th round of military talks at an early date. The objective of these talks is to complete disengagement in remaining friction points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and like us on Facebook for the latest updates and interesting stories.
