Relations between two neighbouring countries and the world's first and second-most populous countries, China and India, have witnessed a downward spiral in recent years after the bloody clash between the two countries' border troops in the Galwan Valley in June 2020, along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the western section of the Sino-Indian border.
Since then, things have become more complicated and sensitive as both sides have militarised the LAC while casting blame on each other for trespassing into the poorly demarcated border. As a result, trade, economic partnership and people-to-people relations have suffered to a large degree due to the 35-month-long border row that does not serve the common interests of two important neighbours in Asia.
