India, Feb. 23 -- One of the biggest challenges for both India and China will be to arrive at an equilibrium and then maintain it, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Friday against the backdrop of the dragging standoff between the two sides on the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

Instead of getting caught up in "mind games" that this is an issue between just the two countries, India should be confident to "leverage" the international system to find the best possible outcome, Jaishankar said while participating in a session at the Raisina Dialogue, India's flagship conference on geopolitics and geo-economics.

Jaishankar also mounted a strong defence of Russia, a close strategic partner of India, in response to a question from a ...