Overview

• India and China outlined steps for a stable, cooperative, forward-looking relationship, including frontier peace efforts, reopening border trade, promoting investment, and early resumption of direct flights.
• Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited New Delhi for talks with S Jaishankar and Ajit Doval and met Prime Minister Narendra Modi as part of efforts to rebuild ties.
• Gen M M Naravane said discussions on the boundary are advancing and described the Line of Actual Control as a negotiable boundary with scope for give and take.
• He cautioned that substantial troop deployments remain on both sides of the LAC since 2020 and urged that the situation be resolved quickly.
• He cited the 2005 guiding principles on the boundary as a reference point, while reports noted the new steps were announced as India–US relations face strains over President Donald Trump’s trade policies.