China responsible for border violence in 2020, did not follow long standing written agreements, Jaishankar said in Japan

Taking a dig at China, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said Beijing has not adhered to long-standing written agreements with India and blamed it for the bloodshed on the borders in 2020, the worst in more than four decades. It happened for the first time. Speaking at the inaugural Raisina Roundtable in Tokyo, a think tank event here, Jaishankar also explained how he expects a change in Russia’s orientation towards the rest of the world and that he potentially wants multiple options in Asia.

On a two-day visit to Japan, Jaishankar discussed the changing world order in detail and said that there is a reality of a huge power shift in the Indo-Pacific. When there are huge changes in capabilities and influence and possibly ambitions, all ambitions and strategic outcomes are also linked.

Now, it is not an issue whether you like it or you don’t like it. There is a reality there, you have to deal with that reality. He said and further said that ideally we would assume that everyone would say, okay, things are changing, but let’s keep it as stable as possible.

He said that unfortunately we have not seen this in the last decade of our experience in the case of China, for example, between 1975 to 2020, which is actually 45 years, there was no bloodshed on the border and in 2020 it changed . We may disagree on many things, but when a country doesn’t actually follow written agreements with a neighbor, I guess. A standoff broke out on the eastern Ladakh border on May 5, 2020, following a violent clash in the Pangong Lake area.