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China on Friday said that India and China should maintain smooth communication over the border issues and the dialogue is effective hinting towards the border talks between the two countries to resolve the prolonged border stand-off. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said this while responding to a question.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Thursday blamed China for the ongoing Sino-India border tension along the (LAC) and said that an Asian century can only happen when India and China come together. Addressing a gathering of diplomats, academics and students at the prestigious Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, he said that India-China relationship is going through an extremely difficult phase because of what the Chinese have done in the last two years in our border areas.
Responding to his remarks, Wang said that the two countries should provide each other ‘development opportunities’ and become each other’s cooperative partners instead of posing a threat to each other. He said that the two countries have the ‘wisdom and capability to reinforce each’ rather than wear each other down, adding that ‘we have far more common interests than differences’.
India has consistently said that it was China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), which trespassed the LAC in eastern Ladakh, triggering the current tensions and China is dragging its feet from completing the disengagement process from the remaining friction points. Recent round of talks have encountered a deadlock over disengagement in the spots in Hot Springs, Demchok and Depsang.