Amsterdam, May 22 -- External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that India has had difficult neighbours, which the West has always been insulated from.

In an interview with Netherlands-based NOS, Jaishankar said that the Europe has now woken up to the reality which India had been facing for almost eight decades.

"I've had difficult neighbors, Pakistan and China especially. I've had a continuing problem of terrorism from Pakistan. So I've always had to deal with a degree of realism with a very harsh world, a very nasty world, which I think Europeans were insulated from," he said.

Jaishankar was asked if India puts aside conflicts with its neighbours- China and Pakistan, the three can get rich together. The interviewer then asked to wha...