Worldview with Suhasini Haidar | RIC meeting amidst India-China tensions
The Hindu
Bilateral tensions soar, but multilateral meetings continue. How long can India-China ties bear the diplomatic contradictions with the military situation?
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar held a trilateral meeting of the Russia-India-China grouping and joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation or SCO meeting that includes China this week.
The talks, which do not deal with any bilateral issues came even as the Indian army and PLA soldiers continue to hold their 19 month standoff at the Line of Actual Control that began when Chinese soldiers amassed their troops along the Line in Ladakh and Sikkim in April 2020, and then transgressed into areas that India claims, leading to a number of clashes including at Galwan where 20 Indian soldiers, and an undisclosed number of Chinese soldiers were killed in brutal conditions in June 2020.
The continuing standoff has led many to wonder about the relevance of India’s participation at multilateral events like this one:
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