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

India's relations with China right now was going through a "very difficult phase" after Beijing violated border agreements, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday, February 19, 2022, underlining that the "state of the border will determine the state of the relationship". “That changed because we had agreements with China not to bring military forces to the… we call it the border but it’s Line of Actual Control, and the Chinese violated those agreements,” Mr. Jaishankar said. “So obviously relations with China right now are going through a very difficult phase,” the external affairs minister said, adding that India’s relations with the West were quite decent even before June 2020. Mr. Jaishankar, who was in Melbourne last week, had said that the situation at the Line of Actual Control has arisen due to the disregard of written agreements by China not to mass soldiers at the border and noted that Beijing's actions have become an issue of "legitimate concern" for the entire international community.

The Hindu

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