India, Aug. 19 -- There is no change in India's position on Taiwan, with which New Delhi maintains economic, technology and cultural ties, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday while responding to a Chinese foreign ministry readout that misquoted external affairs minister S Jaishankar as saying that Taiwan is part of China.

The readout, issued first in Mandarin after midnight, India time, following a meeting between Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in New Delhi on Monday, contained a lengthy paragraph with comments attributed to the external affairs minister. It included the line: "Taiwan is a part of China." A subsequent readout in English contained a similar paragraph.

"There is no change in our position on Tai...