India’s Modi meets China’s top diplomat Wang as Asian powers rebuild ties

Ties betwixt the 2 nuclear-armed Asian powers person made ‘steady progress’, India’s PM Modi says.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has met China’s apical diplomat Wang Yi and hailed the “steady progress” made successful improving the bilateral narration aft a years-long standoff betwixt the nuclear-armed Asian powers and arsenic the 2 nations navigate a shifting planetary system upended by United States President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Modi besides noted “respect for each other’s interests and sensitiveness” successful a connection connected societal media aft gathering Chinese Foreign Minister Wang successful New Delhi connected Tuesday. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the countries person entered a “steady improvement track” and the countries should “trust and support” each other.

Glad to conscionable Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Since my gathering with President Xi successful Kazan past year, India-China relations person made dependable advancement guided by respect for each other's interests and sensitivities. I look guardant to our adjacent gathering successful Tianjin connected the sidelines of the SCO… pic.twitter.com/FyQI6GqYKC

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 19, 2025

Wang arrived successful India connected Monday and has met with Foreign Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar arsenic good arsenic National Security Adviser Ajit Doval astir the countries’ disputed borderline successful the Himalayan mountains.

India’s Ministry of External Affairs said Wang’s gathering with Doval discussed “deescalation, delimitation and bound affairs”.

Relations plummeted successful 2020 aft security forces clashed on the border. The violence, the worst successful decades, near 20 Indian soldiers and 4 Chinese soldiers dead, freezing high-level governmental engagements.

“The setbacks we experienced successful the past fewer years were not successful the involvement of the radical of our 2 countries. We are heartened to spot the stableness that is present restored successful the borders,” Wang said Monday.

Modi emphasised the value of maintaining bid and tranquillity connected the borderline and reiterated India’s committedness to a “fair, tenable and mutually acceptable solution of the bound question,” his bureau said successful a statement.

‘Political compromise’

The rebuilding of India-China ties coincides with friction betwixt New Delhi and Washington aft United States President Donald Trump imposed steep tariffs connected India for continuing to bargain Russian oil, which the US says is fuelling Moscow’s warfare machine.

India is simply a longtime US state seen arsenic a counterbalance against China’s power successful Asia and is portion of the Quad information confederation with the US, on with Australia and Japan.

The chill successful relations aft the deadly clash successful 2020 betwixt troops successful the Ladakh portion affected trade, diplomacy and aerial travel, arsenic some sides deployed tens of thousands of information forces successful borderline areas.

Some advancement has been made since then.

Last year, India and China agreed to a pact connected borderline patrols and withdrew further forces on immoderate borderline areas. Both countries proceed to fortify their borderline by gathering roads and obstruction networks.

In caller months, the countries person accrued authoritative visits and discussed easing immoderate commercialized restrictions, question of citizens and visas for businesspeople.

In June, Beijing allowed pilgrims from India to sojourn beatified sites successful Tibet. Both sides are moving to reconstruct nonstop flights.

Last week, the spokesperson for India’s Foreign Ministry, Randhir Jaiswal, said India and China were successful discussions to restart commercialized done 3 points on their 3,488km (2,167-mile) border.

“Settling the bound contented betwixt the 2 countries requires governmental compromise astatine the highest governmental level,” said Manoj Joshi, a chap astatine the Observer Research Foundation, a New Delhi-based deliberation tank.

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