Defense Minister Rajnath Singh will participate in a meeting of Defense Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to be held in Kingdao city of China from 25 to 27 June.
Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khwaja Asif will also attend this meeting.
This will be any Indian minister’s visit to China after 7 years. Earlier in April 2018, the then Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj went.
This tour is happening at a time when efforts are going on to normalize relations between India and China. Trade, travel and dialogue have started again.
Kailash Mansarovar Yatra is on and patrolling information has also been revealed in Deppasang and Demchok.
Rajnath will have bilateral talks with Chinese Defense Minister
Rajnath Singh will also meet China’s Defense Minister Admiral Dong from June as a bilateral talks. During this period, issues like visa policy, Kailash Yatra, sharing water data and restoring air connectivity can also be discussed between the two countries.
The previous meeting of the two leaders took place at the ADMM-Plus Summit in Laos, which was the first direct conversation after the border dispute.
An agreement was reached on East Ladakh border dispute in December 2024
There was tension between India-China over border dispute in East Ladakh since 2020. December 2024 has reached an agreement after a two -year -long conversation. It was decided that the two armies would withdraw from the disputed points Depassang and Demchok.
October 18: Information about retreating from Depsang and Demchok was revealed. It was told that both forces will return from here to the first position from April 2020. She will also patrol in the same areas where she used to do before April 2020. Apart from this, the commander level meeting will continue.
In 2020, there was tension in Depsang and Demchok since the flock clash between India-China soldiers. Nearly 4 years later, on 21 October, a new patrolling agreement was signed between the two countries. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had said that its aim is to stop clashes like Galwan in Ladakh and create the same situation as before.
October 25: India and China forces began to retreat from East Ladakh border from 25 October. According to news agency ANI, both forces were removed by the two forces in East Ladakh’s Demchok and Depsang Point. Trains and military equipment were also taken back.
