Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri is all set to visit China on January 26-27 to discuss future steps in the relationship between the two countries, focusing on political, economic, and people-to-people aspects. The meeting will additionally address issues like visa regulations, direct air routes, and enhancing economic collaboration.
The visit follows recent initiatives by New Delhi and Beijing to reduce tensions between the two adjacent nations.
The visit follows a meeting a month earlier between National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval and China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in China, where the importance of upholding a political view of the India-China relationship was highlighted, alongside the pursuit of a fair and reasonable framework for resolving the boundary dispute.
In October last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi engaged in bilateral discussions with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time in five years during the Brics Summit held in Kazan, Russia.
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The meeting follows agreement between the two countries to restart patrolling along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, resulting in “disengagement.”
The patrolling plan was established four years post the Galwan Valley confrontation, indicating a reduction in tensions in an area where both nations had deployed tens of thousands of soldiers.
The disengagement deal has allowed the Indian military to restart patrols to the former stations in Depsang and Demchok — the two key conflict areas that remained unresolved between the two countries.
The two parties additionally finished one round of patrolling in November and concurred to conduct a coordinated patrol each week in the regions where tensions have remained since 2020.
