Beijing has billed Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to New Delhi this week as an effort to “enhance political mutual trust”. Wang, who is also a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and China’s Special Representative on the boundary question, arrived on August 18 to participate in the 24th round of Special Representative (SR) talks with National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, post a meeting with External Affairs minister S Jaishankar.
The trip marks the first state-visit by a Chinese minister to India since PM Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping met on the sidelines of the Kazan summit in 2024. Importantly, the visit is arguably one of the most substantive engagements since the Galwan clash of June 2020, which collapsed the old bargain of managing competition while building cooperation.
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