Jaishankar blames China for not observing written pacts
Speaking here at the inaugural Raisina Roundtable in Tokyo, an event by the think tank, Jaishankar also spoke about how he expected a change in Russia’s direction towards the rest of the world and it may likely want multiple options in Asia
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar during the Raisina Roundtable, in Tokyo, Japan on Thursday. PHOTO: PTI
Tokyo, 7 March
Taking a dig at China, External
Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said Beijing has not observed
longstanding written agreements with India and blamed it for the bloodshed at
the borders in 2020, the first in more than four decades.
Speaking here at the inaugural
Raisina Roundtable in Tokyo, an event by the think tank, Jaishankar also spoke
about how he expected a change in Russia’s direction towards the rest of the
world and it may likely want multiple options in Asia.
On a two-day trip to Japan,
Jaishankar elaborated on the changing world order, saying, “There is a reality
of a very big power shift in the Indo-Pacific. When there are very big shifts
in capabilities and influence and presumably ambitions, then there are all the
accompanying ambitions and strategic consequences.”
“Now, it's not an issue whether you
like it or you don't like it. There's a reality out there, you have to deal
with that reality,” he said and added, “Ideally, we would assume that everybody
would say, okay, things are changing, but let's keep it as stable as we can.”
“Unfortunately, that's not what we
have seen in the last decade of our own experience in the case of China, for
example, is between 1975 to 2020, which is really 45 years, there was no
bloodshed on the border, and in 2020, changed,” he said.
“We can disagree on many things,
but when a country actually sort of does not observe written agreements with a
neighbour, I think, you have caused ... because ... then raises a question mark
about the stability of the relationship and frankly, about intentions,”
Jaishankar said in response to a question.
The eastern Ladakh border standoff
erupted on May 5, 2020, following a violent clash in the Pangong Lake area.
The ties between the two countries
nosedived significantly following the fierce clash in the Galwan Valley in June
2020 that marked the most serious military conflict between the two sides in
decades.
India has been maintaining that its
ties with China cannot be normal unless there is peace in the border areas. "We
see it in conflict in Europe, in disregard for international law in Asia, and
in the ongoing developments in the Middle East and often in the weaponisation
of the normal," he said earlier in his prepared address.
"Longstanding agreements are
not being necessarily observed, raising question marks about the stability of
the environment in which we all operate," he said, referring to the 1993
Border Peace and Tranquillity Agreement (BPTA) and the 1996 agreement on
“Confidence Building Measures in the Military Field Along the Line of Actual
Control in the India-China Border Areas”.
Answering a question after his
speech, he said, "That is why for India, in a changing world, our own
equilibrium, our own balances with other countries are changing as well. They
don't have to be acrimonious, but the balance is changing."
The External Affairs Minister had
on March 2 in Delhi raised a similar point while speaking at an interactive
session of a think tank. “China must adhere to border management pacts and
there has to be peace and tranquillity along the Line of Actual Control (LAC)
for improvement in Sino-India ties,” Jaishankar asserted amid the lingering
military face-off in eastern Ladakh.
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