Don’t think China has any doubts about India’s stand: Jaishankar on bilateral ties
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that China should have no doubts about India’s position on bilateral relations between the two countries and what is wrong with it.
“I don’t think the Chinese have any doubts about where we stand on our relationship and what has not gone right with it. I have met my counterpart Wang Yi many times. As you may have experienced, I I speak frankly reasonably (and) there is no lack of clarity so if they want to hear it, I am sure they will have heard it,” Jaishankar said.
He spoke at the “Greater Power Competition: The Emerging World Order” panel at the Bloomberg New Economic Forum in Singapore on Friday.
The foreign minister has also said that India and China are going through a bad phase in their relations due to Beijing’s actions and violation of agreements between the two neighboring countries and for which there is still no “credible explanation”.
“We are neighbors and are going through a particularly bad patch of our relationship because they have violated a number of actions and agreements for which they still do not have a credible explanation and this indicates some rethinking about That’s where they want our relationship to take, but it is for them to answer,” he added, referring to the eastern Ladakh border conflict with China.
Referring to other relations, Jaishankar said the US today is a more flexible partner than ever before, more open to ideas, suggestions and work arrangements.
“I have been working with the US for almost 40 years now. America today is a more flexible partner than ever before, more open to ideas, suggestions, work arrangements,” Jaishankar said in response to a question. panel discussion.
“There is no question that the US has contracted strategically for some time. Relatively and absolutely, US power and US influence are not what they used to be. It is also clear that China is expanding, but the nature of China “The way its growing influence is very different from that of the US, and we do not have a situation where China essentially takes the place of others – America,” he said.
The session was also attended by former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Referring to the Quad, which is a grouping of Australia, India, Japan and the US, Jaishankar said, “It is a good example of some countries coming together on a certain set of interests.”
“It reflects a very different kind of world in which we are moving … the real change is happening now after 1982,” he said.
Answering the question of how the world is changing, he said that it is neither unipolar nor dipole.
“It’s definitely not unipolar and it’s not really bipolar either. There are many more players. All we’re doing is working with countries, (it’s) multipolar work,” he said.
“In a sense, this is partly a hedging strategy, partly autonomous partnership, often very issue-based (as) we work with different countries on different issues,” the minister said.
(with inputs from PTI)
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