Not weakening India's collective position a collective responsibility: EAM

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday said it was everyone's collective responsibility to ensure that India's collective position is not weakened abroad.

He said there were lots of misleading narratives put out in the past three years.

During an interactive session on Foreign Policy of the Modi government organised by a forum here, Jaishankar was asked about Rahul Gandhi's statement that India did not understand the threat from China. He was also asked whether such domestic criticism affected India's ability to negotiate in international fora.

"I would have offered to take classes on China from Rahul Gandhi but I discovered that he was taking classes on China from the Chinese ambassador, Jaishankar claimed.

"On certain issues we have a collective responsibility to at least behave in a way in which we do not weaken our collective position abroad," the External Affairs Minister said. "What we have seen in the past three years on China is that there are often very misleadin