Source: Bloomberg | Original Published At: 2023-08-24 15:35:03 UTC
Key Points
- Modi and Xi met at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg to address the India-China border dispute.
- The border conflict began in May 2020, leading to deadly clashes and military deployments.
- Diplomatic and military talks have achieved limited progress toward resolution.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke at the sidelines of a BRICS summit in Johannesburg, and asked their officials to work at resolving their border dispute quickly.
The feud over where a 3,488-kilometer (2,170 mile) ill-defined border should lie erupted in May 2020 and sparked the worst clashes seen between the two nations in four decades. Thousands of troops were deployed to both sides of the boundary, and at least 20 Indian soldiers and a number of Chinese personnel were killed. At least 19 rounds of talks involving diplomats and military officials have made incremental progress in resolving the standoff.