Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is expected to land in Delhi on Thursday evening for the first such visit by a Chinese official since PLA transgressions at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in April, 2020 led to a standstill in political ties.
Official sources confirming the plans for the Minister in Delhi said all preparations have been made and Mr. Wang is expected to meet External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Friday to discuss the way forward on the LAC issue, the war in Ukraine and the BRICS process. However, it is still unclear whether he will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the day–long visit, after which he is due to fly to Kathmandu.
While Mr. Wang has met Mr. Jaishankar twice in the past two years and attended the Russia–India–China trilateral virtual meeting along with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, there has been no direct contact between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Chinese leadership including President Xi Jinping since China’s aggression across the LAC.
