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Snapshot of the day

October 22, 2024

Sidharth Bhatia

China says that New Delhi and Beijing have reached a “solution on relevant matters.” The comment, by a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, was reported in the Communist party run tabloid Global Times and confirms what foreign secretary Vikram Misri had said a day earlier on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control on the India-China border.

Meanwhile,