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India rebukes China FM over Kashmir remarks before expected visit

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi addressing the 48th meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers in Islamabad [Saiyna Bashir/Reuters]

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has drawn a rebuke from the Indian government ahead of his expected but unconfirmed visit to New Delhi on Friday, upsetting his hosts with remarks made in Pakistan this week concerning the disputed Kashmir region.

Relations between the two nuclear-armed Asian powers turned chilly two years ago after a deadly border clash in the Ladakh region of Kashmir, and Wang would be the first high-level Chinese official to visit since that time.

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