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Border Clashes Put India-China Ties Under ‘Exceptional Stress’

Indian army convoy carrying reinforcements and supplies, on a highway bordering China, in Gagangir, India. — Indian army convoy carrying reinforcements and supplies, on a highway bordering China, in Gagangir, India.
Photographer: Yawar Nazir/Getty Images

By

Archana Chaudhary

January 28, 2021, 9:29 AM UTC

India’s foreign minister signaled a hardening of New Delhi’s stance toward China and said ties between the two nations were under “exceptional stress” amid deadlocked peace talks to resolve a deadly border conflict.

“The India-China relationship is today truly at a crossroad,” Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said Thursday in a virtual address to the 13th All India Conference of Chinese Studies. “Choices that are made will have profound repercussions, not just for the two nations, but for the entire world.”