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China-India relations next 5 to 10 years look ‘tough’, says top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi
- Comment by Indian National Congress Party chief comes as annual meeting of security-themed Shanghai Cooperation Organisation goes virtual-only
- Protracted border dispute casts long shadow over Beijing and New Delhi’s efforts to ease bilateral tensions
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Khushboo Razdanin New York
India’s best-known opposition leader predicts relations between Beijing and New Delhi will be “tough” over the next five to 10 years, a day after it was revealed that a high-level regional security meeting would be held virtually rather than in person.
Rahul Gandhi, leader of the Indian National Congress Party and now on a three-city US tour, shared his observation at a Stanford University event in California on Wednesday when asked about the rival countries’ historically hostile ties.
“It’s tough right now,” Gandhi said, noting China had “occupied some of our territory”.
“It’s rough,” he added, before stating: “India cannot be pushed around. That is something that is not going to happen”.
China and India have been mired in a protracted border stand-off that flared in 2020 as a deadly brawl resulted in the deaths of at least 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers in the contentious Kashmir region.
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