India has reopened tourist visas for Chinese nationals amid improving relations post-military standoff, enabling applications at global missions.

New Delhi: India has opened up tourist visas for Chinese nationals applying through Indian missions and consulates around the world as the two countries continue the process of normalising their relations after a prolonged military stand-off on the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

The move comes four months after India first resumed tourist visas for Chinese nationals in July. Visas for Chinese nationals were suspended after the start of the face-off on the LAC in April-May 2020. The military confrontation and a brutal clash in Galwan Valley, which killed 20 Indian soldiers and at least four Chinese troops, took bilateral ties to their lowest poi

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