India-China ties at crossroads, depend on neighbour following rules: Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said that the relationship between the neighbours depends upon whether China is adhering to the norms of maintaining peace.

The relationship between India and China is at a crossroads and its direction depends on whether the neighbouring country adheres to various agreements on maintaining peace and tranquillity along the border, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday, referring to the eastern Ladakh standoff. Jaishankar said the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's visit in 1988 to China, 26 years after the 1962 conflict, led to a consensus on having stability along the frontier, which was followed by the signing of two important agreements in 1993 and 1996 on maintaining peace and tranquillity at the border. The stability at the border led to the expansion of relations in several sectors, but it was adversely impacted following what happened in eastern Ladakh, he said at a webinar organised jointly organised by the Financial Times and the Indian Express.