EAM S Jaishankar said it would be a “mistaken analysis” to see India-China relations as a direct reaction to developments with the United States.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday dismissed speculations that recent diplomatic outreach between India and China was driven by Washington’s trade actions, including US President Donald Trump’s tariff moves. Jaishankar said it would be a “mistaken analysis” to see India-China relations as a direct reaction to developments with the United States.“What I want you to understand is it’s not black and white. It’s not that something has happened with America, so therefore, immediately, something has happened with China… There are different timelines of different lengths on different problems,” he said. The minister underlined that ties between New Delhi and Beijing were part of a longer, evolving trajectory and could not be reduced to one-off responses to specific global events. “I think it would be a mistaken analysis to try and crunch everything and make it into an integrated response to a very specific situation… Today, of course, there is a global landscape… I want you to understand there is an evolution. There’s a flow of that relationship. There are other relationships, but don’t make this connection so tight. That’s not the reality,” Jaishankar noted.