Deadlock on LAC, talks cannot take place simultaneously in the room, Jaishankar spoke openly on China’s move

Beijing’s actions in the Galwan Valley have made it very difficult for India and China to work together. If there is no deadlock on the borders then you can hope to sit in the room and discuss something else. Jaishankar, speaking at the Pandit Hriday Nath Kunzru Memorial Lecture, said Beijing’s actions in Galwan in 2020 disregarded nearly 30 years of agreements on border issues between New Delhi and Beijing, which have guided India’s engagement with the country at multilateral and multilateral levels. Have affected relationships.

He said that for almost 30 years no blood was shed on the border, many agreements were reached. They may not have been observed 100 percent, but essentially they have kept the border relatively calm and stable. Jaishankar said that now China has created a new situation on the border by disregarding those agreements, especially the 1993, 1996, 2005 and 2012 (agreements). Our only response at that time was retaliatory deployment of forces along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). Relations between China and India remain tense after the clash between the two armed forces in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley in 2020. Since then, the Chinese military has tried to attack and capture Indian positions in eastern Ladakh at least twice between September 2021 and November 2022.

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Based on his comments at the Munich Security Conference in early February, Jaishankar presented an ideal under which India is focusing on multi-vector relations with different countries that suit its own needs. Jaishankar stressed that in many ways, if you look at our social characteristics, they are not inconsistent with the Western world. The problem for us is that, while we share many of these characteristics, the world order is still largely engineered after World War II, but with all the advantages of the earlier eras of imperialism and colonialism.