75% of disengagement problems with China on LAC standoff sorted out: S Jaishankar
Increasing militarisation of the border between India and China is the bigger problem, the external affairs minister said.
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said that about 75% of the “disengagement problems” with China on the military standoff along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh have been “sorted out”, The Indian Express reported.
The bigger problem, however, is the increasing militarisation of the border, Jaishankar said while speaking at Switzerland’s Global Centre for Security Policy.
Border tensions between India and China have increased since June 2020 when a violent face-off between Indian and Chinese soldiers took place in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley. It had led to the deaths of 20 Indian soldiers. Beijing had said that the clash left four of its soldiers dead.
Since the Galwan clashes, China and India have held several rounds of military and diplomatic talks to resolve the border standoff.
On Thursday, Jaishankar reiterated that the negotiations between the two sides to find a solution to the military standoff are on.
“We still have some things to do,” The Indian Express quoted him as saying. “There is a bigger issue that both of us have brought forces close up and in that sense, there is a militarisation of the border”.
Jaishankar added: “How does one deal with it?…In the meanwhile, after the clash, it has affected the entirety of the relationship because you cannot have violence at the border and then say the rest of...
