Union Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar on Monday said that resolving friction along the India-China border and the ability to maintain peace are fundamental for mutual trust between the two nations. The neighbours have made “good progress” over the last nine months for the normalisation of relations, he told Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, adding…
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will likely visit China next week, his first trip to the neighbouring country in five years. Jaishankar’s visit comes about three weeks after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh visited China to attend the SCO’s defence ministers’ meeting in Qingdao. The ties between the two nations came under severe strain following the…
New Delhi: Donald Trump‘s tariffs are doing, it appears, what decades of political and diplomatic wrangling could not, at least with any great degree of success – to get India and China to work together, to “make the dragon and elephant dance“, as Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said last month. The US President’s tariffs…
Published on Mar 13, 2025 06:02 PM IST In the latest episode of HT Podcast, Hindustan Times’ Subhajit Sengupta speaks with Executive Editor Shishir Gupta on China’s change of tune towards India after years of border disputes & confrontations. The episode will also explore why Chinese President Xi Jinping’s regime is now preaching peace with…
Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday held talks with his Chinese counterpart Admiral Dong Jun at Vientiane in Laos and emphasised the need for the two countries to work towards de-escalation of the conflict in the sensitive Ladakh theatre on the back of the recent disengagement of Indian and Chinese armies from Depsang and Demchok,…
New Delhi: The disengagement process between Indian and Chinese forces in the Depsang plains and Demchok sectors of Eastern Ladakh is underway, with completion expected soon, according to Defence sources. The Indian Army aims to conclude the process by Tuesday, following which coordinated patrolling will resume in the area. The Indian side has been striving…
Oct 28, 2024 06:17 AM IST India and China will complete the process of military disengagement across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on Monday. In a major step to improve the diplomatic relations between the two countries, India and China will complete the process of military disengagement across the Line of Actual Control (LAC)…
New Delhi: Despite the recent easing of tension between New Delhi and Beijing, the ghost of the 2020 Galwan clash is likely to hover for a while, as the implications of the border disengagement between the two countries is likely to unravel only slowly. Some measures taken by India against Chinese businesses may be scaled…
Oct 23, 2024 06:51 PM IST PM Modi met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Kazan during the BRICS Summit, marking the first formal interaction in five years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday in Kazan, Russia, during the BRICS Summit. This meeting represents the first formal structured interaction between…
The two countries have arrived at an arrangement to resume patrolling along their de facto border, said India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Monday. A spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry Tuesday confirmed an agreement related to border issues, without elaborating. Patrols by Indian and Chinese security forces along the border halted following a June 2020…