External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar To Visit China Amidst The Latter’s Reported Help To Pakistan During Operation Sindoor

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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is set to visit China around July 13 to attend a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, people familiar with the matter said .

It would be Jaishankar’s first visit to China after the ties between the two countries came under severe strain following the 2020 military standoff along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi may also visit India this month to hold a fresh round of talks with NSA Ajit Doval under the framework of Special Representatives (SR) dialogue on the boundary dispute, it is learnt.

In December, NSA Doval visited Beijing and held the SR talks with Wang. Doval visited China last month as well for a meeting of top security officials of the SCO member nations.

The people cited above said the external affairs minister is likely to travel to Beijing for talks with Wang before going to Tianjin for the conclave of the SCO foreign ministers that will be held on July 14 and 15.

Jaishankar’s visit is taking place less than three weeks after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh travelled to the Chinese port city of Qingdao to participate in the SCO defence ministers’ conference.

China is the current chair of the SCO, and it is hosting the meetings of the grouping in that capacity.

Earlier in stunning statememt , Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Capability Development and Sustenance), Lieutenant General Rahul R Singh, on as reported by PTI , highlighted the role played by China and Turkey in assisting Pakistan during Operation Sindoor.

Speaking at the ‘New Age Military Technologies’ organised by FICCI, the Deputy COAS said that the Chinese were giving live updates to Pakistan while the conflict was on.

“We had one border and two adversaries, actually three. Pakistan was in the front. China was providing all possible support. 81% of the military hardware with Pakistan is Chinese… China is able to test its weapons against other weapons, so it’s like a live lab available to them. Turkey also played an important role in providing the type of support it did… When DGMO-level talks were on, Pakistan had the live updates of our important vectors, from China,” he said.