India is walking a tightrope between asserting its sovereignty and securing economic gains. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar flatly rejected China's "false" readout of their meeting in Manila, clarifying that India never acknowledged Beijing's sovereignty claims over Taiwan or Tibet. Instead, Jaishankar confronted Wang Yi with India's own grievance: China's illegal occupation of over 43,000 square kilometers of Indian territory in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh since...