India, China in talks over Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit
The HinduSignalling a possible turnaround in ties, China’s State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi could visit India later this month, the first such visit by a Chinese official since the crisis along the Line of Actual Control sparked by the Chinese military’s transgressions in April 2020. Stand on Ukraine issue Mr. Wang’s visit to India will come at a time when both India and China have taken similar positions on the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the UN Security Council and Human Rights Council, where they abstained on resolutions aimed at Russia. In addition, after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Delhi in December 2021, the Kremlin had indicated that Russia could help organise a Russia-India-China Summit in 2022, which could see Prime Minister Narendra Modi come face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time since the LAC crisis. Mr. Wang said during China’s annual National People’s Congress session that concluded last week that “relations encountered setbacks in recent years” which “did not serve the fundamental interest of the two countries and people”.