The Chinese and Indian militaries have held talks on the management of the countries’ shared border and both agreed to use existing mechanisms to resolve any “land issues”, the neighbors said on Wednesday.
New Delhi and Beijing reached a historic pact last year to reduce military tensions on their Himalayan border, which escalated after a military clash in 2020 in which 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese soldiers were killed.
Since the 2024 pact, the two countries have taken steps to improve relations, including the resumption of direct flights and increased trade and investment flows.
China’s Defense Ministry said that in the latest round of high-level military talks held on the Indian side of a meeting point on Saturday, the neighbors agreed to continue their dialogue through military and diplomatic channels.
“Both sides agreed to continue using existing mechanisms to resolve any land issues along the border to maintain stability,” India’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited China in August for the first time in seven years to attend a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization regional security bloc.
Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed that India and China were development partners, not rivals, and discussed ways to strengthen trade ties amid global tariff uncertainty.
