Is India In A War Like Situation With China? EAM S. Jaishankar Answers

Reacting to Congress and other opposition parties' outrage over the Chinese building a bridge on the Pangong Lake, Dr. Jaishankar said the area had been under illegal occupation of China since the 1962 war. China was a bigger economy and India was responding to the situation that China has created along the LAC in Ladakh by violating border agreements. "They are the bigger economy what I am going to do? I am a smaller economy. Am I going to sort of pick up a fight with a bigger economy? It is not a question of reacting. It is a question of common sense. We had an agreement that we are not supposed to bring to the borders in large numbers...because it is in our interest to stabilize our borders or a situation it is not out of love affection or sentiment. It is a core calculation," he said.