Congress targets Jaishankar's visit to China, Rahul Gandhi says India's foreign policy is being ‘destroyed'
'I guess the Chinese Foreign Minister will come and apprise Mr. Modi about recent developments in China-India ties. The External Affairs Minister is now running a full-blown circus aimed at destroying India's foreign policy,' Mr. Gandhi said in a X post, tagging a media report that said Mr. Jaishankar met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing and apprised him of latest developments in bilateral ties.
Earlier, Congress communication chief Jairam Ramesh, issued a statement, questioning Mr Jaishankar's assertion during his meeting with China's Vice President Han Zheng on July 14.
Noting that the External Affairs Minister stated that the India-China bilateral relationship 'has been steadily improving since the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in Kazan last October' and that 'continued normalisation of our ties can produce mutually beneficial outcomes,' Mr. Ramesh sought to remind him of China's recent positioning with regard to India.
The Congress leader stressed that 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.
'Perhaps we should remind the EAM of recent developments in bilateral ties since the PM's last tete-a-tete with President Xi: China gave total support to Pakistan during Operation Sindoor, turning it into a testing ground for network-centric warfare and weapon systems such as the J-10C fighter and PL-15E air-to-air missile and assorted drones,' he said in a statement.
He added that Deputy Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen Rahul R Singh has stated that India fought three adversaries in Sindoor, including China that gave Pakistan 'live inputs' i.e. real time intelligence on Indian military operations and soon they are likely to acquire Chinese J-35 stealth fighters in the near future.
Further, Mr. Ramesh argued that China has restricted exports to India of critical materials like rare-earth magnets, speciality fertilisers, and tunnel-boring machines for infrastructure projects.
Important sectors like telecoms, pharmaceuticals, and electronics remain critically dependent on Chinese imports, while hundreds of Chinese workers have departed from India's Foxconn facilities, potentially impeding India's attempt to become an alternative global supplier of Apple smart phones, he added.
'When are the External Affairs Minister and his boss the PM going to take the people of India into confidence and hold a detailed debate on China in Parliament — as the Indian National Congress has been calling for since 2020. The INC hope that the Prime Minister will finally agree to such a discussion and break the five-year drought in the forthcoming Monsoon session of Parliament,'Mr Ramesh asked.
And in a separate press conference, Congress social media head Supriya Shrinate said while the EAM reaches out to China, who openly backed Pakistan during Ops Sindoor, not a single terrorist involved in the Pahalgam terror attack has been arrested so far.
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