BENGALURU: Former foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon today said India and China always managed to de-escalate tensions in the event of face-offs as had happened in Doklam.
Though there had been face-offs over border issues, both the countries had a common interest to handle the dispute peacefully, he said in his address at the thought conclave “The Huddle”, conducted by ‘The Hindu’ Publication here.
“Most commentaries miss the basic point that like previous such crisis whether it was Chumar where we had face-offs, we always managed to disengage,” Menon said.
The former diplomat agreed that there would be chances of face-offs in future.
“We do have cases which both sides consider on their side of the line. So we will have face-offs, we will have future cases, but it is not that we do not know how to handle it and we see a common interest in handling it peacefully,” he said. (AGENCIES)
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