What happened?
India’s Foreign Secretary, Shri Vikram Misri, will be visiting Beijing on 26-27 January 2025 for a meeting of the Foreign Secretary-Vice Minister mechanism between India and China.
Why it matters to India:
The announcement of the visit comes just over a month after India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on December 18, 2024, in the backdrop of a border patrolling arrangement that was announced on October 21, 2025, 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, 2025.
The meeting marks a continuation of discussions between India and China to address political, economic, and people-to-people aspects of their relationship. According to India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) statement, this resumption of dialogue between the two sides aligns with agreements at the leadership level to explore the next steps in bilateral relations.