India-China Border Standoff: India's EAM Jaishankar Says "Ties Significantly Disturbed"

India-China Border Standoff: India's EAM Jaishankar Says "Ties Significantly Disturbed"

India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said that the bilateral relations between India and China are 'significantly disturbed'. He also noted that the primary issue between the two neighbouring nations is the patrolling of the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

While speaking at an event titled ‘India, Asia and the World,’ hosted by the Asia Society and the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York, S. Jaishankar said that, “It took us (India and China) 14 years to send back ambassadors after the war and another 12 years to reach a modus operandi. The basis for that was to develop a relationship ensuring peace in the border area."

“To maintain peace, we established a series of agreements, each going into greater detail to ensure the border remained peaceful,” he added. However, he noted that in 2020, China moved a large number of forces to the LAC, thereby violating these agreements. “The focus over the last four years has primarily been on disengaging the troops. Right now, both sides have forward-deployed troops,” the External Affairs Minister mentioned.

Jaishankar circled back on his previous comment about the 75% progress on the India-China border dispute. "When I said 75% of it has been sorted out, I was asked in a way to quantify—it’s only regarding the disengagement,” he said.

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