India- China relations are not normal and cannot be unless China moves back to its pre-2020 position on the border. This has been stated multiple times by India’s external affairs minister S Jaishankar. However, what China has also told India multiple times is that it should not bother about the boundary dispute and must focus on trade. This has been a clear display of what China thinks of India’s concerns, including the most pertinent one--sovereignty. However, China also needs India’s huge market.