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China’s Wang Yi to Visit India for 24th Round of Boundary Talks

The visit aims to advance border confidence-building measures on trade, flights and pilgrimages in preparation for the SCO summit.

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
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Overview

  • Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will travel to New Delhi from August 18 to 20 at the invitation of India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval.
  • He will chair the 24th Special Representatives talks with NSA Doval and hold bilateral discussions with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on the boundary question.
  • The agenda prioritizes practical confidence-building measures, including restarting trade through Himalayan passes and resuming direct flights and pilgrimages.
  • Talks are positioned to lay groundwork for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin at month’s end.
  • Substantive de-escalation of troops on the Line of Actual Control remains unresolved, with strategic distrust and recent India–Pakistan tensions complicating deeper disengagement.