China violating LAC agreements: Jaishankar

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"Our response was strong and firm." At a public event in Chennai, Foreign Minister reaffirmed the government's stance that India won't let China disrupt the status quo on the Indo-China border.

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00:00On the northern borders, China is today seeking to change the status quo by bringing large

00:08forces in violation of our agreements.

00:12Despite the COVID, remember this happened in May of 2020, despite the COVID, our counter

00:19response was strong and firm.

00:49Despite the COVID, remember this happened in May of 2020, despite the COVID, our counter

01:10response was strong and firm.

01:13Despite the COVID, remember this happened in May of 2020, despite the COVID, our counter

01:24response was strong and firm.

01:31These troops deployed in the thousands, safeguard our frontiers in the most extreme terrain

01:37and the harshest weather, and it continues to this day.

01:43So India matters because the world sees that this is a nation that will not be coerced.

01:53It will not be coerced by anybody and that it will do what it takes to ensure its national

02:02security.

02:05In India's case, geography has added to the case made by history of its relevance.

02:13The Indian peninsula has a visible centrality to the ocean that is named after it.

02:20There is a continental dimension as well.

02:24Without its active participation, no Trans-Asia Connectivity Initiative can really take off.

02:32The Indian Ocean is poised to assume today even greater geopolitical significance.

02:41How well India leverages its location is a considerable part of its relevance to the

02:48world.

02:49The more it influences, the more it participates, the more its global stock will rise.

02:57And if India's prosperity and progress serve as a larger lifting tide for the entire subcontinent,

03:04then this would be even more consequential.

03:07When our national security has been challenged, we have stood our ground and stood our ground

03:13very firmly.

03:15Breaking from the past, we are showing zero tolerance for terrorism.

03:24This is an India that knows how to take care of its own people.

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