Ladakh incident profoundly have disturbed India China relationship, firms EAM

New Delhi, January 28: "Events in Eastern Ladakh last year have so profoundly disturbed India China relationship because they not only signaled a disregard for commitments about minimising troop levels but also showed a willingness to breach peace and tranquility", said External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar while addressing the delegates at the 13th All India Conference of China Studies

 

 

Rebuilding of India China ties was actually painstaking and arduous. The parallel rise of the two nations is a unique happening in the human history today. After 1962 conflict, the duo exchanged ambassadors only in 1976. The first Prime Ministerial visit to China after 1954 actually happened only in 1988, he added.

 

For the last 3 decades, interactions and exchanges have steadily grown in some areas. China has today become one of our largest trading partners, a significant source of investment, a participant in projects and infrastructure building and a very substantial destination for tourism and education. In the years that have already passed, India did not see significant progress on arriving at a common understanding of the alignment of LAC in India-China border areas.

 

Jaishankar also said that these differences and disagreements that India may have had on boundary, central fact is that border areas still remains fundamentally peaceful. "Last loss of life at India-China border before 2020 was as far back as 1975. The parallel rise of the two nations is a unique happening in the human history today", he noted.

 

The All India Conference of China Studies (AICCS) is the flagship event of the ICS, convened annually, with the principal objective of spreading interest in and strengthening research on China and East Asian Studies in India. Each conference has a special theme and this year’s theme is focused on “China at the Crossroads: New Directions in Politics, Environment and Economy”.

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