New Delhi: The October border pact between India and China, and now the meeting of special representatives after a gap of 5 years demonstrates a thaw in relations between the two countries since tensions broke out at the Line of Actual Control in 2020.
Following the meeting between China’s Finance Minister Wang Yi and India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, a statement from Beijing announced that the two countries had reached a ‘six-point ‘consensus’, reminiscent of a 2005 agreement that proposed a ‘package’ solution to border disputes.
The 2005 border agreement was reached between former prime minister Manmohan Singh and then Chinese premier Wen Jiabao and contained 11 articles, with commitments to safeguard the interests of the settled populations, and reaching a resolution on all the border sectors where there was a lack of clarity on which side of the border the land was located.
In Episode 1576 of CutTheClutter, editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta highlights the key takeaways from the meeting, the key points of the 2005 agreement. and other breakthroughs in India-China border issues since 1988.