Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member S. Ramachandran Pillai has said that the party’sstand has always been to resolve the India-China border dispute through dialogue.
He clarified his position in the wake of media reports that cited him as glorifying China at the Kottayam district conference of the party and also alleged of difference between him and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on the issue.
Mr. Pillai said the Line of Actual Control had not been demarcated and earlier the previous Congress government and now the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government had held in talks with China. But India should never fall into the trap of the United States, which wouldbe happy if both nuclear powers India and China went to war.
