Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi traveled to New Delhi on Aug. 18, for a three-day visit, one of whose principal features will be to work out agreements on the agenda for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Tianjin, China for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit (Aug. 29-Sept. 1), during which Modi will meet on the sidelines with his host Chinese President Xi Jinping.
First, Wang Yi will meet today with Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. The Times of India reports that they will “look to finalize the agenda for the Xi-Modi bilateral.” He will then meet in the morning of Aug. 19 with India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval about the 24th round of Special Representatives on the boundary question. This will further the normalization of relations between India and China, following the military face-off on the Line of Actual Control, which set the border between India and China, in April-May 2020.
The evening of Aug. 19, Wang will meet with Prime Minister Modi at Modi’s official residence. Modi’s planned trip to China will be his first visit there in seven years.
