China's
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Ministers’ meeting during the 58th Association of Southeast Asian
Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers’ meeting and related meetings at the
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Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi to visit India from Monday, China's foreign ministry says
By Reuters
August 16, 2025BEIJING,
Aug 16 (Reuters) - Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi will visit India
from Monday to Wednesday, China's foreign ministry said in a statement
on Saturday, for talks about a disputed border in the Himalayas.
This is only the second such meeting since a deadly clash in 2020 between Indian and Chinese troops at the border.
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Relations
between the two Asian giants have been thawing since an agreement last
October on patrolling their Himalayan border, easing a five-year
standoff that had hurt trade, investment and air travel.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping
at the end of the month when he travels to China - his first visit in
seven years - to attend the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation
Organisation, a regional security bloc.
Reporting by Lewis Jackson; Editing by William Mallard