’Hugging diplomacy has not worked with China & Army chief should have been better advised’

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China is trying to change the status quo along the Line of Actual Control with India, Yashwant Sinha, external affairs and finance minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government tells ThePrint's national and strategic affairs editor Jyoti Malhotra. Sinha pointed out that Vajpayee was always on his guard while dealing with China, that the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladkah, the site of the current standoff between Indian and Chinese soldiers, has never been in dispute and that prime minister Narendra Modi, who has tried to become friendly with China, has not succeeded. He described Army chief M M Naravane's comments on Nepal as being "eminently avoidable," and said the Modi government's neighbourhood policy is in tatters. "You cannot be condescending with Nepal, no matter the temptation,"