India’s Foreign Secretary Shri Vikram Misri will be visiting Beijing for a two-day trip later this month.
As per the Press Information Bureau, Misri will be visiting China from January 26 to 27.
The Indian Foreign Secretary will attend a meeting of the Foreign Secretary-Vice Minister mechanism between India and China.
The resumption of this bilateral mechanism flows from the agreement at the leadership level to discuss the next steps for India-China relations, including in the political, economic, and people-to-people domains.
In December 2024, India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had said that ties between India and China, which remained ‘abnormal’ ever since the 2020 border clash, have moved in the direction of improvement, following continuous diplomatic engagement.
Speaking at the Lok Sabha (Lower House of the Indian Parliament), Jaishankar said: “Our ties have been abnormal since 2020 when peace and tranquillity in the border areas were disturbed as a result of Chinese actions.”
The EAM said: “Recent developments that reflect our continuous diplomatic engagement since then have set our ties in the direction of some improvement.”
Ending the longstanding standoff that erupted following the 2020 Galwan Valley clash, India and China recently announced a breakthrough to resume patrolling along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
Following the disengagement, the troops of the two Asian giants returned to the status which prevailed before the deadly Galwan clash in 2020.
