Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s view that India and China have to work out the border problem to smoothen what he terms as "abnormality in ties" between Asia’s two major powers is laying out India’s position once again. It is not something new. But the PM saying it makes a difference, as it has come from the highest quarter. Foreign minister Subramanyam Jaishankar too had said so several times to his Chinese counterpart. It plays into what Prime Minister Modi had said to President Vladimir Putin on Ukraine that this is not an era of war. Differences have to be resolved through negotiations and diplomacy. This was his message to Putin on Ukraine.