India-China should approach each other with strategic maturity: Jaishankar
It is likely that from
time to time there are differences, says Jaishankar
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news : India and China should approach each other with "strategic
maturity", Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar said today while expressing
confidence that the two countries will be able to handle the Sikkim standoff as
they have dealt with such border differences in the past.
INDIA
CHINA STANDOFF "It is a long border, as you know no part of
the border has been agreed upon on the ground. It is likely that from time to
time there are differences," Jaishankar said while responding to questions
on the standoff between Indian and Chinese troops in the Doklam area of the
Sikkim sector after delivering a lecture on 'India, ASEAN and Changing
Geopolitics'.
Underlining that this was not the
first time that China and India have had border differences, Jaishankar said,
"When such situations arise, I see no reason, when having handled so many
situations in the past, we would not be able to handle it."
"This is not to suggest that
old problems have been all addressed or that new issues will not arise. India
has an alarming trade deficit that in our view emanates from obstacles to
market access in China," Jaishankar said.
Jaishankar, while talking of
Sino-India ties during the lecture organised by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public
Policy and the Indian High Commission, said negotiations on the long-standing
boundary dispute still continue.
"Differences on issues like
terrorism, nuclear energy access and connectivity initiatives have also
acquired some prominence," he said, reffering to the disagreements with
China over Beijing's blocking of efforts to get JeM chief Masood Azhar banned
by the UN, denying India entry into the Nuclear Suppliers Group and the
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project which New Delhi is opposed to as it
passes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
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