Sino-India relations heading towards dead end: Mishra
By Iftikhar Gilani
NEW DELHI: India-China relations are heading towards a dead end, Indias former national security adviser Brajesh Mishra said on Saturday.
Participating in a seminar on Chinas Internal Scene at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Mishra, who held lengthy negotiations with the Chinese during the previous Atal Bihari Vajpayee regime, said the Chinese were keen to settle a boundary dispute with India, but felt the government in New Delhi lacked the political will to do so.
He said significant progress would have been made if the Vajpayee-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government had returned to power five years ago.
Mishra said India had two good opportunities to solve the boundary problem; during the prime ministership of Jawarharlal Nehru, and of Indira Gandhi in 1980. There was no political problem then, but we created the problems ourselves, he said. Saying that the situation now was grave, Mishra said steps should be taken to see that no conflicts arise between China and India.
He suggested that negotiations and dialogues with China, especially in the fields of culture and science and technology, should continue to give the impression of some kind of a normalisation process.
By Iftikhar Gilani
NEW DELHI: India-China relations are heading towards a dead end, Indias former national security adviser Brajesh Mishra said on Saturday.
Participating in a seminar on Chinas Internal Scene at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Mishra, who held lengthy negotiations with the Chinese during the previous Atal Bihari Vajpayee regime, said the Chinese were keen to settle a boundary dispute with India, but felt the government in New Delhi lacked the political will to do so.
He said significant progress would have been made if the Vajpayee-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government had returned to power five years ago.
Mishra said India had two good opportunities to solve the boundary problem; during the prime ministership of Jawarharlal Nehru, and of Indira Gandhi in 1980. There was no political problem then, but we created the problems ourselves, he said. Saying that the situation now was grave, Mishra said steps should be taken to see that no conflicts arise between China and India.
He suggested that negotiations and dialogues with China, especially in the fields of culture and science and technology, should continue to give the impression of some kind of a normalisation process.
