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EAM S Jaishankar Delves into Historical Perspectives on India’s Relations with China, Pakistan, and the US, Highlighting Differing Views and Ideologies

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar says, ” Regarding the three countries Pakistan, China and US which were actually three debated relationships in our early years. If we had been more ‘Bharat’, we would have had a less rosy view of our relationship with China. This is not my fantasy, there is a kind of record of that, there is an exchange of letters between Sardar Patel and Pandit Nehru on China and they had a starkly differing views about it…if we look at the whole UN security issue, this is not something which today someone is saying, there is a letter written by Nehru to Chief Ministers saying ‘First let China take its plays in the security council’ even when the 1962 conflict war was taking place where Nehru actually wrote to Kennedy saying ‘look I need your help’…what happens is in a sense there is a certain, I would say, a kind of left-wing ideology which was strong in that period which…in China and similarly there is very ingrained hostility towards the United States.”

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