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Wang Yi Arrives in New Delhi for High-Level India-China Border Talks

His two-day visit centres on fresh confidence-building measures along the LAC before Prime Minister Modi’s SCO summit in Tianjin.

FILE PHOTO: 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.
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Overview

  • On August 18, Wang Yi will land at Delhi’s IGI Airport and meet External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar before chairing the 24th Special Representatives’ talks with NSA Ajit Doval and calling on Prime Minister Modi at his residence on August 19.
  • The discussions will focus on negotiating new confidence-building measures to preserve peace and tranquillity along the Line of Actual Control, where roughly 50,000–60,000 troops remain deployed on each side.
  • This visit represents a calibrated diplomatic push to stabilise ties strained by the 2020 Galwan Valley clashes and to lay groundwork for Modi’s participation in the SCO summit in Tianjin at month-end.
  • Invited by NSA Ajit Doval and formalised by the Ministry of External Affairs, the itinerary underscores India’s reliance on the Special Representatives mechanism as the primary channel for resolving the boundary question.
  • External pressures including recent US tariffs on Indian goods bolster incentives for both governments to push forward border de-escalation and resume broader institutional engagement.