China’s Wang Yi To Visit India From Monday For Border Talks

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi attends the 15th East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ meeting during the 58th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers’ meeting and related meetings at the Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur on July 11, 2025. MANDEL NGAN/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

China’s foreign ministry announced on Saturday that Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit India from Monday to Wednesday for talks on the disputed Himalayan border.

This is only the second such meeting since a deadly clash in 2020 between Indian and Chinese troops at the border.

Relations between the two Asian giants have been thawing since an agreement last October on patrolling their Himalayan border, easing a five-year standoff that had hurt trade, investment and air travel.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping at the end of the month when he travels to China – his first visit in seven years – to attend the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a regional security bloc.

‘Border Stability Fuels Growth’

Recently, Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar clearly stated that India is discussing with China some steps to mend a very badly disrupted relationship post-2020, but peace and tranquillity in border areas are imperative.

“We want a stable relationship, but we want a relationship where our interests are respected, where our sensitivities are recognised, where it works for both of us. So, I think, that has really been the challenge in the relationship. And obviously for us, because of the border – the management of the border – the assumption for the last 40 years has been that there must be peace and tranquillity in the border areas if the relationship is to grow. If the border is unstable, is not peaceful or is not tranquil, obviously, it will have consequences on the growth and direction of the relationship,” he said while replying to an online question after a Chatham House conversation with Bronwen Maddox, Director and Chief Executive Officer of London-based think tank.

Jaishankar, who has also been India’s Ambassador to China, used the global platform to emphasise that peace on the border is a precondition for growth in India-China ties.

(With inputs from Reuters)

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