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Doval heads to Beijing for boundary talks
The Hindu··24 Aug
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval travelled to Beijing for the 25th round of India-China Special Representatives talks with Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the long-running boundary question. The visit comes weeks before India hosts the BRICS Summit on September 12, amid expectations that Chinese President Xi Jinping could visit India for the first time in seven years.
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What It Means For You
- Border stability directly affects trade, travel and business ties between India and China, including resumed Nathu La and Lipulekh border trade this month.
- A steady India-China thaw could ease tensions for residents of border states like Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Ladakh.
- Anyone tracking India's BRICS hosting duties gets a preview of what a potential Xi Jinping visit could mean for the September 12 summit.
What's Happening
- NSA Ajit Doval travelled to Beijing for the 25th round of Special Representatives talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the boundary question.
- The visit comes weeks ahead of India's BRICS Summit on September 12, amid expectations of Xi Jinping's first India visit in seven years.
- Both sides are reviewing the October 2024 disengagement agreement and exploring an early harvest deal in less contentious border sectors.
The Three-Stage Process to Settle the Border Dispute
- The 2005 political parameters agreement marked the first of a three-stage process to settle the boundary, with delimitation and demarcation still pending.
- Talks froze for nearly five years after the 2020 Galwan Valley clash before restarting with the 23rd round in Beijing in December 2024.
- Modi and Xi last met at the SCO Summit in Tianjin in August last year, where both sides called their differences manageable, not disputes.
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