(TibetanReview.net, Oct04’24) – So long as the forward deployments of militaries on the border continues, which resulted from China’s violation of a series of signed agreements, tension in bilateral relations will remain, India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said Oct 1.
China has recently been trying to sweet talk India into restoring normal bilateral ties while keeping talks ongoing on the continuing border standoff amid heavy deployment of troops and relentless building of strategic infrastructure.
Speaking at an event hosted by Carnegie Endowment in the US, Jaishankar has said: “In terms of our relationship with China, I think it’s a long story, but the short version is that we have agreements on how to keep the border peaceful and tranquil, and those agreements were violated by China in 2020. And …because we have forward deployments of our militaries, there are resultant tensions. And until those forward deployments are addressed the tensions would continue. If the tensions continue, it casts a natural shadow over the rest of the relationship. So our relationship hasn’t been built for the last four years.”
India and China have been in a territorial face-off since 2020 after the Chinese Army transgressed into multiple areas from the Galwan Valley to the Finger area along the Pangong Lake, noted the ndtv.com Oct 3.
The standoff at the border is continuing as multiple rounds of military and diplomatic discussions did not reap results, the report said.
Jaishankar earlier said the two sides had carried out 75% of the disengagement in eastern Ladakh after a series of talks at various levels but that the trust deficit continued to remain due to China’s propensity to renege on signed agreements and its unwillingness to carry out the remaining disengagements for restoring the pre-2020 border situation.