Jaisankar Explains China’s Stand On LAC
- 09-Dec-2020
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On Wednesday, external affairs minister S Jaisankar explains that India-China ties have been “very significantly damaged" and are passing through their most difficult phase ever because of Beijing’s violation of agreements on maintaining peace and tranquillity on the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
The Chinese side has given ‘five differing explanations’ for violating the agreements by bringing tens of thousands of soldiers to the LAC in Ladakh sector, a development that has “profoundly disturbed" the relationship, he said in an online conversation with the Australian think tank Lowy Institute.
With the India-China border standoff in its eighth month, Jaishankar made it clear that extensive contacts between the two sides at different levels had so far failed to address the basic issue that agreements are not entertained.
Jaisankar said, We are today probably at the most difficult phase of our relationship with China, certainly in the last 30 to 40 years...or even more, noting that the 20 Indian soldiers killed in the clash at Galwan Valley in June were the first military casualties on the LAC since 1975.
