India and China are drawing closer , after years of heightened tension.

Just in the last few days, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi had been in New Delhi, meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior Indian officials as direct flights between the neighboring nations are set to resume for the first time in five years. Wang’s meeting with his Indian counterpart, S. Jaishankar, was only the second such meeting between the two sides since the 2020 border skirmishes killed at least 20 Indian troops and four Chinese soldiers. Wang’s “positive” meetings seems to have laid the groundwork for Modi’s first visit to China in seven years later this month, where he will meet China’s President Xi Jinping.

The rapprochement is being analyzed through the Trumpian lens as India-U.S.

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