China and India Confirm Warmer Border Relations

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) with Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval in Beijing on 23 June 2025. Photo: Xinhua

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval in Beijing on Monday. Doval is also Delhi’s special representative for border issues with China, and the meeting focused on continuing the thawing of border relations following a meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Kazan, Russia, last year.

Wang said India and China should extend the consensus reached last year, support each other’s development and interact as partners not rivals. He called for peaceful border relations, civilizational cooperation, and win-win cooperation. Doval echoed these themes and called for the joint combating of terrorism.

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