China, India to Hold High-Level Talks Over Contested Border

File image of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi shakes hands with Indian special representative and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval in New Delhi on December 21, 2019. Image via Xinhua

China announced on Monday that it would hold high-level talks later this week with India on their border disputes- the first such discussions in five years, signaling a possible thaw in frosty ties.

Relations had been tense since a deadly military encounter in 2020 on the border between Tibet and India’s Ladakh region, which left at least 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers dead.

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