{"id":225899,"date":"2025-01-28T07:24:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T07:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/india-china-to-resume-direct-flights-after-nearly-five-years\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T07:24:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T07:24:33","slug":"india-china-to-resume-direct-flights-after-nearly-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/india-china-to-resume-direct-flights-after-nearly-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"India, China to Resume Direct Flights After Nearly Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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India and China have agreed to resume direct flights between the two countries after nearly five years, the latest thaw between the two Asian giants that until recently were on war-footing over a deadly border dispute.<\/p>\n

The rapprochement also included agreements on improving access to journalists from both sides and facilitating pilgrimages to a Hindu shrine in Tibet. They were announced by both sides on Monday, after India\u2019s foreign secretary, Vikram Misri, visited Beijing.<\/p>\n

The two nations have made substantial progress in recent months to restore some normalcy in ties<\/a>. Their relationship had plunged to its worst in decades following an incursion by Chinese soldiers<\/a> into the Indian side of a disputed border in 2020. The skirmishes left soldiers dead on both sides.<\/p>\n

In October, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India met with China\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping, on the sidelines of a summit in Russia. It was the first time the two leaders had sat down for proper talks in five years. That conversation was made possible by more than two dozen rounds of negotiations between military leaders and diplomats over disengaging their forces along the border high in the Himalayas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n