India had the chance to express its opinions on the border impasse and the long-running boundary dispute in an open manner during the two leaders’ meeting on Thursday, which took place on the eve of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) conference in New Delhi. According to India, all border-related disputes must be settled in conformity with the current agreements.
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China’s defence ministry has claimed that the situation at the border is generally stable and that both parties should place the boundary problem in an appropriate position and encourage its transition to normalised management in an effort to downplay the uncomfortable quiet along the LAC.
This comment smells of hypocrisy, given how little China has done to ease tensions on the ground. China’s intention to enrage India has been highlighted by the swift infrastructure development in eastern Ladakh and the recent renaming of locations in Arunachal Pradesh. In the past three years, there have been 18 rounds of military negotiations in parallel with Beijing’s brazen application of its tried-and-true salami-slicing tactic.
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Following S Jaishankar, the External Affairs Minister, who told his Chinese counterpart Qin Gang that the state of India-China relations was abnormal, Rajnath made his comments less than two months ago. Even though the fact that negotiations are still ongoing at the diplomatic and military levels is encouraging, Chinese cooperation is essential to resolve the border dispute and begin the protracted process of clearly demarcating the entire LAC. India has rejected Beijing’s attempt to separate the boundary dispute from the reestablishment of normal bilateral relations. New Delhi has often argued that the presence of calm and tranquillity at the border determines the future of India-China relations, particularly commercial connections.
Business-minded The first step should be for China, which asserts that the two neighbours have far more common interests than differences, to strive to bridge the trust gap by maintaining peace at the LAC.
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