External Affairs Minister S.Jaishankar on Thursday said that India-China relationship in the last three decades was predicated on the maintenance of peace and tranquillity along the Line of Actual Control and that disturbing the “very foundation” of the ties is going to have consequences.
In an interactive session at the Bloomberg India Economic Forum, the external affairs minister also said the problem was not created by India, noting both sides are engaged in talks to resolve the over five-month-long military standoff in eastern Ladakh.
When queried about the outcome of the ongoing talks, Jaishankar said the “discussions are going on and it is a work in progress.” At the same time, he said there has been a troop build-up along the LAC and in many ways, it has no precedence in the recent past.
The external affairs minister said that the trade, as well as various other aspects of the relationship between India and China, were predicated on the maintenance of peace and tranquillity along the border areas in accordance with various agreements and pacts the two sides sealed since 1993.
“For the last 30 years, we have built a relationship predicated on peace and tranquillity along the border,” he said, adding if peace and tranquillity are not ensured and the agreements signed are not honoured, then that is the “primary cause of disruption” in ties.
India and China are locked in a military standoff in eastern Ladakh for over five months. Both sides have held multiple rounds of talks to resolve the standoff. However, no breakthrough in disengagement of troops at the friction points in eastern Ladakh has been achieved so far.
“My concern is for many of us who have seen this relationship grow, if you disturb its foundation so to speak then you know you cannot be sort of impervious to the fact that it will have consequences. It is nobody’s desire to have those consequences.
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But that problem in a sense was not created on our side,” he said.
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Though he maintained that the early restoration of peace and tranquillity along the border would be good for everyone, but noted that both sides have been having trade issues for almost two decades.
“These are not new problems. I remember I was ambassador in China from the middle of 2009. Even in 2009, we were concerned about lack of market access in China, about the non-reciprocal nature of trade, about the mounting trade deficit which to our mind was not a natural outcome of our comparative advantages,” Jaishankar said.
“Discussions are on; what is going on is something confidential between us and the Chinese,” he added.