![]() "And I said that the best way China could help us is by facilitating commercial medical supplies from China. Our discussion was that COVID was something bigger and in mutual interest, and that we need to work together," said the Indian minister. "The last conversation was focused on COVID-19. Jaishankar revealed that all he had asked of his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi during a telephone call on 30 April was that Beijing might "facilitate" commercial medical supplies to India as the South Asian nation battled the devastating second wave of coronavirus. "And that's a position which we have consistently held in our discussions with the Chinese," he pointed out. ![]() It is not realistic," the Indian foreign minister added. "One can't have friction, coercion, intimidation and bloodshed on the border and then expect to have a good relationship in other fields. "We have been very clear with the Chinese that peace and tranquility in the border areas is absolutely essential for the development of our relations," said Jaishankar, when asked to comment on the present state of Indo-Chinese relations as well as cooperation between the two Asian powerhouses in tackling COVID-19. The Indian foreign minister is in the United Kingdom for the G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting. "The relationship right now is going through a very difficult phase because - in violation of agreements and understanding of many, many years - the Chinese have deployed a very large part of their military on, and close to, the Line of Actual Control, without any explanation," Jaishankar said during a discussion organised by London-based publication company India Inc. India's foreign minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, said on Wednesday that there can be no meaningful cooperation between China and India until Beijing removes its troops from the Indian border and commits itself to "de-escalating" the Ladakh border dispute. New Delhi says that any significant cooperation with Beijing on fighting COVID-19 can only take place once the dispute has been resolved. India and China have been in a military stand-off for almost a year and it is the deadliest conflict between the two Asian powerhouses since the 1962 border war.
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