NEW DELHI: India said on Tuesday it is committed to engaging China to find a fair and mutually acceptable framework for settling the boundary issue, but made it clear that the Line of Actual Control (LAC) must be strictly respected and the status quo in the border areas must not be unilaterally altered. External affairs…
NEW DELHI: In an era of leveraging and weaponisation of trade and business, policymakers have to use “national security filters” for economic decisions, including those related to investments, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Monday. External affairs minister S Jaishankar addresses a gathering at the CII Partnership Summit 2024 in New Delhi on Monday….
With the four-and-a-half-year-long military standoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC)—the de facto boundary between the two nations—ending last week, India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who also double up as special representatives of the two nations for boundary negotiations, are likely to meet soon to restart the…
After four years, and four months, 17 rounds of meetings of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination (WMCC) on border affairs, 21 rounds of military dialogue, and long-drawn, tedious and difficult negotiations at diplomatic and political levels, the Narendra Modi government has managed to convince the Xi Jinping regime to restore its patrolling rights…
India-China’s long standing 3,440km border dispute has seen some progress after four years as India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri announced that the two nations have agreed on a patrolling arrangement along the disputed Ladakh border. The move comes ahead of the BRICS Summit in Kazan, which will be attended by both PM Narendra Modi and…