India’s relations with China going through ‘very difficult phase’: Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said India’s relations with China were going through a “very difficult phase” after Beijing violated border agreements, underlining that “the status of the border will determine the status of the relationship”. .

Addressing the Munich Security Conference (MSC) 2022 panel discussion here, Jaishankar said India has a problem with China and the problem is that for 45 years there was peace, there was stable border management, there were no military casualties. Seema from 1975, he said in response to a question from the host.

That changed because we didn’t have agreements with China to bring in military forces, we call it a border, but it has a Line of Actual Control, and China has violated those agreements, Jaishankar said. He said that the position of the border will determine the status of relations, it is natural.

So obviously relations with China are going through a very difficult phase right now, the External Affairs Minister said, adding that India’s relations with the West were quite good even before June 2020. The eastern Ladakh border standoff between the Indian and Chinese armies began one after the other. Violent clashes broke out in the Pangong Lake areas and both sides gradually increased their deployment with thousands of soldiers as well as heavy weapons.