: ‘Chinese are simply talking to keep India distracted’: Jabin Jacob on New Delhi’s Beijing challenge #IndiaNEWS Despite talk of disengagement, Chinese troops have expanded their numbers and opened

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‘Chinese are simply talking to keep India distracted’: Jabin Jacob on New Delhi’s Beijing challenge #IndiaNEWS
Despite talk of disengagement, Chinese troops have expanded their numbers and opened up new fronts against India in Eastern Ladakh, weeks after at least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in the first fatal clash between the two country’s armies in four decades. The violence and Beijing’s attempt to alter the status quo in Ladakh have led many to see this as a decisive moment in India’s China policy, one that could force a fundamental shift. Scroll.in spoke to Jabin T Jacob, associate professor at Shiv Nadar University and adjunct research fellow at the National Maritime Foundation about what China’s motivations might have been, what Prime Minister Narendra Modi was trying to do by insisting there had been no intrusion and how structural issues of caste and class influence India’s foreign policy capacity. On talks with China: “Either two sides are serious, and they really want to iron out all the differences and prevent a recurrence of June 15, or the Chinese are simply stringing the Indians along. From what we saw at Galwan and advance movement at Depsang, it looks like the latter is the truth.???On Modi’s statement: “China is not Pakistan, and the situation is not identical. You’re not in a position to send in...Read more

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