EAM Jaishankar and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meet on sidelines of G20 meeting
| 2025-02-21
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa on February 21, 2025.
This was the second meeting between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in recent months.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa on Friday (February 21, 2025) for talks to carry forward the momentum imparted to bilateral ties in recent months.
In his opening remarks during the meeting, EAM Jaishankar spoke about “some notable developments” since their last meeting.
“Our NSA and Foreign Secretary have visited China and there have been discussions about various aspects of our relationship,” he noted. “These have included management of peace and tranquility in the border areas as well as other dimensions of our ties. I am glad today to have a further exchange of views,” he added.
Expressing satisfaction about their meeting, EAM Jaishankar said such gatherings had provided an opportunity for interaction even when India-China ties were going through a difficult phase.
This was the second meeting between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his counterpart Foreign Minister Wang Yi in recent months.
They earlier met on the margins of the G20 Summit in Brazil on November 18, 2024, in line with discussions between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping when they met in Kazan, Russia on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit, on October 23, 2024.
The meeting between Prime Minister Modi and President Xi came two days after India and China reached an agreement to disengage frontline forces in the Western Sector of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. This agreement marked the resolution of the last two friction points—Demchok and Depsang—along the LAC.
The Johannesburg meeting between the Indian and Chinese foreign ministers meeting comes less than a month after India and China announced the decision to resume the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra in the summer of 2025.
The two sides had also agreed in principle to resume direct air services between the two countries and discuss the resumption of provision of hydrological data and other cooperation pertaining to trans-border rivers.
The decisions were taken during Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri’s visit to Beijing for a meeting of the Foreign Secretary-Vice Foreign Minister mechanism between India and China on January 27, 2025.
In June 2020, a tense standoff between Indian and Chinese troops in Eastern Ladakh had led to a violent face-off in the Galwan Valley. Twenty Indian soldiers had lost their lives. A large number of Chinese troops were also killed though China has never officially confirmed the actual number of deaths.
The incident led to a massing of troops along the border by both sides.
Multiple rounds of talks at the military and diplomatic levels gradually led to a disengagement at Galwan Valley (July 2020), North and South banks of Pangong Lake (February 2021), Gogra ( August 2021), and Hot Springs (September 2022). But the subsequent meetings did not lead to disengagement at the last two remaining friction points along LAC in the eastern Ladakh region (Demchok and Depsang) until October 2024.
In his opening remarks during the meeting, EAM Jaishankar spoke about “some notable developments” since their last meeting.
“Our NSA and Foreign Secretary have visited China and there have been discussions about various aspects of our relationship,” he noted. “These have included management of peace and tranquility in the border areas as well as other dimensions of our ties. I am glad today to have a further exchange of views,” he added.
Expressing satisfaction about their meeting, EAM Jaishankar said such gatherings had provided an opportunity for interaction even when India-China ties were going through a difficult phase.
This was the second meeting between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his counterpart Foreign Minister Wang Yi in recent months.
They earlier met on the margins of the G20 Summit in Brazil on November 18, 2024, in line with discussions between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping when they met in Kazan, Russia on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit, on October 23, 2024.
The meeting between Prime Minister Modi and President Xi came two days after India and China reached an agreement to disengage frontline forces in the Western Sector of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. This agreement marked the resolution of the last two friction points—Demchok and Depsang—along the LAC.
The Johannesburg meeting between the Indian and Chinese foreign ministers meeting comes less than a month after India and China announced the decision to resume the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra in the summer of 2025.
The two sides had also agreed in principle to resume direct air services between the two countries and discuss the resumption of provision of hydrological data and other cooperation pertaining to trans-border rivers.
The decisions were taken during Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri’s visit to Beijing for a meeting of the Foreign Secretary-Vice Foreign Minister mechanism between India and China on January 27, 2025.
In June 2020, a tense standoff between Indian and Chinese troops in Eastern Ladakh had led to a violent face-off in the Galwan Valley. Twenty Indian soldiers had lost their lives. A large number of Chinese troops were also killed though China has never officially confirmed the actual number of deaths.
The incident led to a massing of troops along the border by both sides.
Multiple rounds of talks at the military and diplomatic levels gradually led to a disengagement at Galwan Valley (July 2020), North and South banks of Pangong Lake (February 2021), Gogra ( August 2021), and Hot Springs (September 2022). But the subsequent meetings did not lead to disengagement at the last two remaining friction points along LAC in the eastern Ladakh region (Demchok and Depsang) until October 2024.
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