The preparatory work for our minister's Beijing visit should have involved a comprehensive internal analysis of why the Ladakh face-off occurred and produced a brief for frank discussions with the Chinese leadership on the subject.
But the government's handling of the issue has been curiously different. On arrival at Beijing Khurshid, astonishingly, told the Indian journalists that it was not clear why the incident happened and that the Chinese "were not offering us that background and we were not looking for (it)", adding gratuitously that "actually, we are not even ready with our own analysis", suggesting he came unprepared on this vital agenda point.
In talking to Chinese journalists he implied that the need was not to end such incidents altogether but resolve them "much quicker".
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