{"id":145212,"date":"2020-12-13T00:59:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T19:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=145212"},"modified":"2020-12-13T00:59:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T19:29:26","slug":"india-is-being-tested-will-meet-national-security-challenge-jaishankar-on-border-standoff-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/12\/13\/india-is-being-tested-will-meet-national-security-challenge-jaishankar-on-border-standoff-with-china\/","title":{"rendered":"India is being tested; will meet national security challenge: Jaishankar on border standoff with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 12 Dec:<\/strong> External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said India was being tested in the seven-month-long border standoff with China in eastern Ladakh and expressed confidence that the country will meet the national security challenge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Calling the &#8220;events&#8221; along the line of actual control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh &#8220;very disturbing,&#8221; Jaishankar also said what has happened there was not in China&#8217;s interest as it is facing the prospect of losing goodwill in India that was developed carefully in the recent decades.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said these events have raised some very &#8220;basic concerns&#8221; as the &#8220;other party&#8221; has not abided by agreements on respecting the LAC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Participating in an interactive session at the annual general meeting of the industry body FICCI, he declined to be drawn into a discussion on any timeline for a resolution of the standoff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When asked whether it will be a long haul or a breakthrough is expected soon for a resolution to the military standoff, Jaishankar said: &#8220;I would not go into prediction zone at all, whether it is going to be easy or not, and what will be the timelines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I do not believe that the events of this year have helped at all. In fact, I think the real danger is that the goodwill which was so carefully developed will dissipate,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;But I also would say that, yes, we are being tested. I have every confidence that we will rise to the occasion; we will meet that national security challenge. But beyond that, at this time, I would really frankly keep my own counsel,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The armies of India and China are locked in a tense border standoff in eastern Ladakh since early May. Both sides have held multiple rounds of military and diplomatic talks. However, no breakthrough has been achieved yet. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 12 Dec: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said India was being tested in the seven-month-long border standoff with China in eastern Ladakh and expressed confidence that the country will meet the national security challenge. Calling the &#8220;events&#8221; along the line of actual control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh &#8220;very disturbing,&#8221; Jaishankar also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-145212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}