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World

Indian foreign minister says ties good with global powers barring China

  • On Pakistan, Jaishankar said Islamabad will have to find its own way out of its financial crisis
Published February 21, 2023

NEW DELHI: Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said New Delhi had a good relationship with major global powers except China, which he said had violated border management agreements.

India’s ties with Russia had been extraordinarily steady despite turbulence in global politics over the war Ukraine, Jaishankar added, in an interview broadcast on Tuesday by Reuters partner ANI.

The tensions with neighbour China had resulted in India having the largest peace time deployment of troops on the frontier, Jaishankar said.

“India’s relationship with major powers is good. China is an exception because it violated agreements … has a posture at the border as a result we have a counter posture,” Jaishankar said, referring to India’s military mobilisation and investment in border infrastructure.

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The minister’s comments come ahead of the March 1-2 meeting of foreign ministers of the Group of 20 nations (G-20) in New Delhi which senior Chinese government officials are due to attend.

The Asian giants share a 3,500 km (2,100 mile) border in the Himalayas called the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The two sides went to war over it in 1962.

At least 24 soldiers were killed when the two armies clashed in 2020 but tensions eased after military and diplomatic talks.

A fresh clash erupted between the two sides in the eastern Himalayas in December last year but there were no deaths.

Jaishankar said India’s view that the war in Ukraine needed a peaceful solution was shared by many countries.

India has kept a neutral stance on the war, declining to blame Russia for the invasion of its neighbour, seeking a diplomatic solution and increasing its purchases of Russia oil over the past year.

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Russia has been India’s biggest supplier of military equipment for decades and it is the fourth-biggest market for Indian pharmaceutical products.

“The world is still very divided on the Ukraine war … Modi wants to create a momentum for peace,” he said, referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s willingness to help calm tensions between Russia and Ukraine.

On Pakistan, Jaishankar said Islamabad will have to find its own way out of its financial crisis.

“Our relationship today is not one where we can be directly relevant to that process,” he said about critical funds the ailing South Asian economy desperately needs.

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HashBrown® Feb 21, 2023 10:19pm
By no coincidence, China is the only major power you've tried to confront - and you got your face smashed in for your efforts.
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TimeToMovveOn Feb 21, 2023 10:33pm
I don't understand this. Can someone explain? According to this newspaper over 40% of the medicines still used in Pakistan are directly imported from India. Then other Indian goods reach Pakistan via Dubai where Indian middlemen make a profit both when it is sold to Dubai and when it transits Dubai to get to Pakistan. If Pakistan allows direct trade in Medicines with India, and gets other (although not everything) Indian products via Dubai at more expensive prices, why not import that directly?
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TimeToMovveOn Feb 21, 2023 11:01pm
This guy somehow managed to do all this: (a) Convice USA/UK it is OK to trade with Russia while getting support from UK/USA to put a lid on the Kashmir issue. (b) OK to be friends with Iran, while getting hitech stuff from Isreal. (c) OK to trade in billions with China, while still having border dispute. (d) Form a partnership with the Taliban, even though he armed the NDS to fight and kill the very Taliban that supports him now. (f) Managed to convince China, to vote against its brother Pakistan, to get UN-designated terrorist status for so many non-state actors. The recent one being two weeks ago--even while we were clashing on the border. (e) Maintain alignment with every part of the world, sans China. He is also the center of the new world foreign policy vision that every country must look after its OWN interests pragmatically, even though it reeks of hypocrisy from a moral stand point. Love him, hate him, you cannot ignore him.
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HashBrown® Feb 22, 2023 05:32am
@TimeToMovveOn, "(a) Convice USA/UK it is OK to trade with Russia while getting support from UK/USA to put a lid on the Kashmir issue." Washington was pretty unequivocal when it gave Hindustan a waiver, staying it was because they needed you guys as a counter to China (which is quite clearly a failing strategy so far, given the massive economic disparity between you both). You could have had a talking budgie as your FM, it wouldn't have made any difference. "(b) OK to be friends with Iran, while getting hitech stuff from Isreal." Iran has been one of the most vocal critics of your behaviour in IOK, alongside Turkey. And whatever Israel gave you, like those super snazzy Spice bombs, wasn't enough to prevent your global humiliation after Pulwama in 2019.
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HashBrown® Feb 22, 2023 05:33am
@TimeToMovveOn, "(c) OK to trade in billions with China, while still having border dispute." China benefits from this more than you do, because it offsets the fluctuating attitude that the west has to dealing with Chinese trade. And it's not really a border dispute when they keep slapping you down at the border now, is it? "(d) Form a partnership with the Taliban, even though he armed the NDS to fight and kill the very Taliban that supports him now." Pure comedy gold. I don't know what's funnier, taking credit for the NDS' nonexistent victories against the Taliban or claiming that the Taliban are secret friends of yours. Even Trump mocked you publicly for your "presence" in Afghanistan, how do you think the Talibs themselves feel?
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HashBrown® Feb 22, 2023 05:34am
@TimeToMovveOn, "(f) Managed to convince China, to vote against its brother Pakistan, to get UN-designated terrorist status for so many non-state actors. The recent one being two weeks ago--even while we were clashing on the border." When it comes to UN votes on Pakistan, NOTHING Beijing does is without consulting Islamabad first. Case in point, not a single blacklisted name had any strategic relevance by the time your had cast your magic spell. Pakistan uses and discards these militants routinely, do you honestly believe that your frowning presence changes that at all? "(e) Maintain alignment with every part of the world, sans China." What does this even mean? Are you aware that most countries can boast "alignment with every part of the world?" The only exceptions are the ones that stand up to the US...so perhaps there's a clue somewhere there to account for your success. All in all your post was some of the most entertaining material I've come across in a long time, so kudos!
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