China and India are rebuilding relations, but will it be ‘a cold peace’?
Challenges remain and any improvement in ties could be limited given the two neighbours’ mutual distrust, according to analysts
But analysts say challenges remain and any improvement in the relationship might be limited given the mutual distrust between the two neighbours and Beijing potentially seeing New Delhi’s overtures as “opportunism” at a time when Washington has stepped up tariff pressure.
During Wang’s two-day visit to New Delhi this week, the two sides agreed to start talks on their eastern and middle border sectors, in addition to talks on the western Himalayan border that have been under way since a deadly clash between Chinese and Indian troops in the Galwan Valley in 2020.
Harsh Pant, a professor of international relations at King’s College London, said New Delhi and Beijing had been pushed to engage by “a lot of factors”.