New Delhi, July 15
The Congress party on Tuesday demanded a full-fledged debate on China in the upcoming Monsoon Session of Parliament, in light of the two nations heading towards ‘re-normalisation and resetting’ of ties, as stated by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar after the SCO foreign ministers' meeting in China.
EAM Jaishankar, during his visit to China, the first in five years after the 2020 Galwan clashes, met Chinese Vice President Han Zheng on Monday and noted the improvement in bilateral relations between the two nations.
Taking note of the development, Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh argued that if the country’s Parliament could discuss the border situation in 1962, when the Chinese invasion was at its peak, why could a similar debate not take place now.
“We hope that the Prime Minister will finally agree to such a discussion,” he wrote on X and stressed on the need for it, given China’s fast ascent in the global power matrix.
“It is essential to build a national consensus on the critical security and economic challenges arising from China’s rise as the world’s leading manufacturing power and its position as the second-largest economy, one that may well surpass the United States within a decade,” he further said.