China calls recent conflict in Ladakh as ”a brief moment” in two countries’ history

Aug 25, 2020

New Delhi/Beijing:Maintaining that China’s policy towards Indian has remained unchanaged, Chinese Ambassador to Indian Sun Weidong on Tuesday called for handling differences through dialogue and consultation, and pushing bilateral relations ”back on track at an early date.”

”Not long ago, an unfortunate incident happened in the border areas that neither China nor India would like to see. Now we are working to handle it properly. It is a brief moment from the perspective of history,” Ambassador Sun said in obvious refrence to the recent conflict on the border in which 20 Indian soldiers were killed.

It was important to take a long-term perspective rather than only looking at the present he said adddresing India-China Youth Forum.

”We need to see that friendly cooperation between China and India is the mainstream and the general trend. Only by seeing this can we maintain objective and rational judgment and correctly handle the differences between the two sides. I am convinced that China and India, two ancient civilizations, have the wisdom and ability to properly handle bilateral relations. We should have full confidence in the development of China-India relations,” the envoy said.

”What I want to emphasize here is that China’s basic foreign policy towards India remains unchanged. China sees India as a partner instead of a rival, and an opportunity instead of a threat. We hope to put the boundary question at an appropriate place in bilateral relations, properly handle differences through dialogue and consultation, and push bilateral relations back on track at an early date,” he said.

The Chinese Ambassador stressed that the top priority of both the countries is to meet the needs of a total of 2.7 billion people and make sure that one third of the world’s population live a happy life, so both China and India need to concentrate on their own development and solve a number of problems such as rural revitalization, poverty eradication, education development, employment creation, and environmental protection. In this regard, we have a lot in common.

” This year, China will target to win the battle against poverty, eliminate absolute poverty, and build a moderately prosperous society in all respects. We are confident to achieve this task. In order to achieve such development goals, both of us need a peaceful and favorable external environment. Therefore, China and India, the two neighboring countries, should live in peace and avoid conflicts,” he said.

”The orientation of China and India as partners, friendly cooperation and common development remain unchanged. Over the past two years, the two leaders held two Informal Summits and reached a series of important consensus on the development of China-India relations, which has provided guidance to us. We should adhere to leaders’ consensus, particularly the basic judgment that China and India are each other’s opportunities and pose no threat to each other. We should also transmit the leaders’ consensus to all levels and translate it into action, Sun said.
—India News Stream