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 only in Mandarin after midnight Indian 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." There was no Chinese readout on the meeting in English.

"There is no change in our position on Taiwan. We...