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MOVING TO resume bilateral engagements after the disengagement at the India-China border, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri will travel to Beijing on January 26-27 for a meeting of the “Foreign Secretary-Vice Minister mechanism between India and China”.

His visit comes just over a month after National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who are also the Special Representatives, met in Beijing on December 18 — less than two months after a border patrolling arrangement was announced on October 21, which was followed by a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia on October 23.

Misri was India’s Ambassador in Beijing in 2020 when the border standoff started, and is familiar with the Chinese leadership and the cast of characters in the establishment in Beijing. His visit will be the first such engagement at the Foreign Secretary level since the border standoff.

Announcing the visit, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said: “The resumption of this bilateral mechanism flows from the agreement at the leadership level to discuss the next steps for India-China relations, including in the political, economic and people-to-people domains.”

Incidentally, this comes a day after the Quad Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Washington DC which, in a thinly-veiled reference to China’s assertive behaviour in the Indo-Pacific that ranges from Taiwan to India-China border, pledged to “strongly oppose any unilateral actions that seek to change the status quo by force or coercion”.

The Foreign Secretary’s visit, however, is a move to repair bilateral ties that headed south after Chinese incursions in 2020 triggered a military standoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.

At the Special Representatives’ meeting in Beijing last month, India and China said they agreed on a set of “six consensus” including resumption of the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, trans-border river cooperation and Nathula border trade. This was the first meeting of the SRs “since frictions emerged in the western sector of the India-China border areas in 2020”.

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The meeting took place less than two months after a border patrolling arrangement was announced on October 21, which was followed by a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia on October 23. The decision to revive the SR dialogue mechanism and other such formats was taken at the Modi-Xi meeting.

Earlier, Chinese officials had said the two sides were discussing ways to bring ties back to “normal” — as it was before the face-off started in April-May 2020.

The Chinese officials outlined their “wishlist”: resumption of “direct flights” between the two countries, easing of visa curbs on Chinese nationals including diplomats and scholars, lifting of the ban on Chinese mobile apps, letting Chinese journalists report from India, allowing more Indian movies in Chinese theatres, etc.

These restrictions were imposed after the Galwan clashes in June 2020, in which 20 Indian soldiers including a Colonel-rank officer and at least four Chinese soldiers were killed, casting a shadow on bilateral ties.

After several rounds of discussions between the two countries, a breakthrough was announced on October 21 — an agreement on patrolling arrangements in the border areas.

Subsequently, India and China completed the process of disengagement at the two friction points of Depsang Plains and Demchok in eastern Ladakh, along the Line of Actual Control, setting the stage for resumption of patrolling.

The agreement on “patrolling arrangements” was an important beginning to the three-step process of disengagement, de-escalation and de-induction of troops. Now that the disengagement process is completed in eastern Ladakh, India is looking at de-escalation and de-induction of troops.

On September 18, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on the sidelines of the G20 leaders’ summit in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The two ministers discussed the “next steps in India-China relations”.

Misri’s visit will complete the meeting of the troika of key Indian interlocutors, since both Doval and Jaishankar have already met their Chinese counterparts.

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