India-China Relations: Days after the newly appointed Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said that both sides are willing to ease the situation and jointly protect peace along their borders, India said on Thursday that peace and tranquility along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), adherence to the pacts, and refraining from attempts to change the status quo are essential for the overall development of bilateral relations with China.
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Arindam Bagchi’s statement
According to Arindam Bagchi, “You are aware of India’s long-standing position– that ensuring peace and tranquillity in the border areas is essential for the development of our relationship.”
“So too is the observance of bilateral agreements and refraining from unilateral attempts to change the status quo of the boundary,” he added.
Days before he was appointed foreign minister, Qin penned the following in an opinion piece for a US-based magazine: “As to the border issues between China and India, the status quo is that both sides are willing to ease the situation and jointly protect peace along their borders.”
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For 32 months, India and China have been enmeshed in a border impasse in eastern Ladakh.
When asked about rumours that China was supposedly building in territories that India claimed, Bagchi responded, “I have a lot of faith in our armed forces to defend our territory.
He claimed that negotiations between China and India were taking place through diplomatic and military channels. These are the channels through which we express our concerns on Chinese actions, he continued.
Both sides, according to Bagchi, are concentrating on de-escalating and disengaging along the border as well as returning to some kind of normalcy.
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