Qualified restart: Modi-Xi talks pave the way for new opportunities

The meeting between the leaders of India and China is a good restart, India will persistently need to work both on the diplomatic and economic fronts

The first formal meeting in five years between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the Brics meeting in Kazan, Russia, has raised expectations yet again of a reset in Sino-Indian relations. The cordial tone of the meeting portended well for this troubled relationship. Both leaders welcomed the agreement on resolving a military standoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh and announced a restart of dialogue mechanisms at an early date between special representatives of both countries to address the broader issues in the boundary dispute. The rapprochement between Asia’s two