India, China discuss ways to move ties to ‘predictable path’

India and China explored ways to rebuild ties and agreed to initiate efforts to promote people-to-people exchanges, including arrangements for resumption of direct flights and resume Kailash Manasarovar Yatra.

India and China on Wednesday (March 26, 2025) explored ways to rebuild ties and agreed to initiate efforts to promote people-to-people exchanges, including arrangements for resumption of direct flights and resume Kailash Manasarovar Yatra this year.

In a meeting in Beijing, the two sides also discussed resumption of dialogue mechanisms in a “step-by-step” manner to utilise them to address each other’s priority areas of interest and concern and move the relations to a “more stable and predictable path”, according to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).

The relations between the two countries came under severe strain following the Galwan Valley clashes in 2020.

The meeting was held between Gourangalal Das, the joint secretary in the MEA’s East Asia division, and Liu Jinsong, the director general at the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s department of Asian affairs.

The MEA said the two sides also made further progress on the modalities to resume Kailash Manasarovar Yatra this year.

It said the two sides took positive note of the developments in bilateral relations since the meeting of the leaders of India and China in October 2024.

“In the intervening period, the Foreign Ministers have met twice, while the Special Representatives on the India-China boundary question have held their 23rd meeting,” the MEA said.