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Over to Sidharth Bhatia for today’s Cable

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Snapshot of the day

July 14, 2025

Sidharth Bhatia

On his first visit to China since deadly border clashes between India and China in 2020, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday said that relations between India and China were “steadily improving” and called for the continued normalisation of the bilateral ties. During a meeting with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng, Jaishankar said that the relations were improving since Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President Xi Jinping met in the Russian city of Kazan in October. The resumption of the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra was widely appreciated in India, Jaishankar said, adding that “continued normalisation of our ties can produce mutually beneficial outcomes”. Jaishankar is in China for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) foreign ministers’ meeting in Tianjin in northern China scheduled on July 15.