Will India, China bury the hatchet in 2024? Jaishankar says a lot depends on…
this relationship will find it difficult to progress." Jaishankar recalled the standoff between Indian and Chinese troops in Ladakh's Galwan Valley and said, "Today, part of the problem is exactly because... that in 2020, agreements were disregarded and mutuality at which this relationship is predicated has not been followed...when you ask me where would it go, I would say a lot of it depend on what is the Chinese policy." "It takes two hands to clap..." Jaishankar said.
The external affairs minister also spoke about the "legacy building" and the foreign policy of Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to deal with the issues posed by China. "If you look at the last 75+ years of our foreign policy, we have had a strain of realism about China and we have had a strain of ...idealism, "non-realism".
It begins from day one where there is a sharp difference of opinion on how to respond to China between Nehru and Sardar Patel...," Jaishankar said. "The Modi government has been very much more in conformity with the strain of realism which originated from Sardar Patel (in dealing with China)...," he said.
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