With China and India emerging as rising powers, challenge is to find the sustainable equilibrium.
India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar made clear that the territorial spat will not be resolved in a hurry.
“And it’s not easy. I have myself invested, you know, a great deal of effort with my counterpart . And at the military commanders level, at the diplomatic level, we’ve had 20-plus rounds of talks.” In the latest twist to the saga, the United States waded into the quarrel, saying on March 20 that it recognises the disputed Arunachal Pradesh as Indian territory. China reacted the next day, saying that Washington is serving its “selfish geopolitical interests”.
A key focus of the dialogue – attended by some 300 diplomats, academics and members of the Indian diaspora – was China, and Dr Jaishankar noted that until there is stability on the disputed border, “it is illogical to expect the equilibrium building, the relationship building, doing more things to move forward, because it will naturally engender enormous distrust”.
China has said that the incident happened only because India violated the bilateral consensus and made unilateral provocations in Galwan Valley, which China claims in entirety amid contestation by India. India says the Galwan Valley is in Ladakh.
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