Normal ties contingent on peace at border: India's Foreign Secy on border row with China

Foreign Secretary of India, Harsh Vardhan Shringla has said that India has always stressed importance of maintaining interaction with Chinese interlocutors that a 'normal bilateral relationship is contingent on peace and tranquility in border areas and that resolution on outstanding border issue was a work in progress.'

Harsh Vardhan was at Asia Economic Dialogue organised by Pune International Centre where he observed that China is second-largest economy in world and India has a significant tre profile with it. economic relationship that India shares with China is also being worked on, but considering important matters that are politically critical to both, he hinted.

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India-China border faceoff

He said that India shares a very long border with China, while recent disturbances are over a small point in region, that is Eastern Lakh. troops of India and China confronted each or in a border standoff last year that led to a violent clash in Pangong lake area, and both sides eventually deployed a large number of forces with weaponry in this part of border.

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However, last month both India and China withdrew ir troops and talks are now underway on reaching a resolution on border dispute. Referring to what Shringla called a 'heavy tre imbalance' that India has with China, he told PTI 
"We have carried quite a heavy tre imbalance for over a number of years. Over time this has increasingly seemed as being unsustainable."

foreign secretary however acknowledged that India's ties with US has continued and re is a 'wide range of possibilities to collaborate with US.' 

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