"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.