The relationship between Beijing and New Delhi has become vital not only to Asia’s future but also to the broader global order, although the neighbours’ “parallel rise” also poses a “unique problem”, according to Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
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“I think the India-China relationship is key to the future of Asia. In a way, you can say, if the world is to be multipolar, Asia has to be multipolar,” he said, adding that the ties between the two unfriendly neighbours would “influence not just the future of Asia, but in that way, perhaps the future of the world as well”.
Jaishankar, who was India’s ambassador to China from 2009 to 2013, made the remarks on Tuesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly during an event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank in New York.
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China-India border clash in June left four PLA troops dead and one injured, report says
China-India border clash in June left four PLA troops dead and one injured, report says
The decades-old Himalayan border dispute between China and India remains the most contentious aspect of their ties. A fraught peace prevailed along the Line of Actual Control for decades after the 1962 Sino-Indian war but it was broken by a deadly border brawl in 2020, killing at least 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers in the Galwan Valley in the Ladakh region.
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