 "EAM Dr S Jaishankar at News18 Rising Bharat Summit (Photo: CNN-News18)")
The Chinese embassy in India on Friday shared External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s remarks that he made on the India-China relationship at the Rising Bharat Summit 2025.
“Hard-won progress, worth cherishing,” Yu Jing, the Chinese embassy spokesperson, said on X.
Jaishankar said that the relationship between the two countries is “moving in a positive direction” and noted that the tensions during a four-year period starting in 2020 “were not in the interest of either country.”
“It is obviously better than the last time I was here. Disengagement, particularly in Depsang, Demchok, was important. We are now addressing to some extent the issues on the border because there has been a force buildup over a period of years. There are many other things that happened during this period. Our direct flights stopped during COVID, they were not resumed. Kailash Mansarovar Yatra stopped during COVID, it did not resume again. There is work to be done, and we are at it," he said during the Rising Bharat Summit.
“We have always maintained that the situation that we saw between 2020 and 2024 was not in the interest of either country. It was not in the interest of our relationship. There is a recognition of that now," he added.
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