Border with China has become more alive, says Jaishankar
External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar stated that India's capability to deploy forces along the frontier has improved significantly.
External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar said on Saturday that the border with China has become "more alive in a way" while noting that India's capability along the frontier has improved significantly.
Speaking at the 24th Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi, Jaishankar said that India's ability to sustain itself and deploy forces along the border has improved in a significant way.
According to the Hindustan Times, the minister noted that border infrastructure had been neglected until about a decade ago.
Jaishankar also commented on the economic history of both nations, stating that India and China had economies of the same stature in the 1980s.
He said that while Beijing pushed towards industrialisation and modernisation, India "missed the bus" during that period, noting that the economies were the same size when Rajiv Gandhi visited China in 1988.
Bilateral ties between the two countries reached a new low in 2020 following a violent clash at Galwan Valley in June, which left 20 Indian soldiers and an unspecified number of Chinese troops dead.
