Overview

• Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in New Delhi on August 18 and held bilateral talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to set the agenda for border and cooperation discussions.
• The 24th round of Special Representatives’ talks with National Security Adviser Ajit Doval is scheduled for August 19 to negotiate new protocols on confidence-building and border management.
• Wang Yi is slated to call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 19 to lay groundwork for Modi’s participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin.
• Discussions will cover practical cooperation on direct flights, border trade and people-to-people exchanges, building on this year’s resumption of pilgrimages and tourist visas.
• Despite earlier disengagements, both sides still deploy roughly 50,000–60,000 troops along the Line of Actual Control as US tariff pressures on Indian goods add diplomatic urgency.