India says it has agreed with China to work urgently to achieve the withdrawal of tens of thousands of troops stationed along their disputed border in a long-running standoff.

NEW DELHI (AP) — India and China have agreed to work urgently to achieve the withdrawal of tens of thousands of troops stationed along their disputed border in a long-running standoff, India’s government said.

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar met his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on Thursday on the sidelines of Association of Southeast Asian Nations meetings in Laos, where they stressed the need for an early resolution of outstanding issues along the disputed Line of Actual Control, the long Himalayan border shared by the two Asian giants.

  • DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    As a westerner, I have probably no understanding what that relationship is like outside of our media. Do these two states actually have issue with each other, or are they gonna wake up one day and realize they are 3/8 of the planet and start rattling their collective sabre.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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      4 months ago

      They have had skirmishes in the past and they will have issues very soon as the Himalayan glaciers start to disappear since both nations rely on them for a large amount of their fresh water. I think they’re both highly aware of that.

      But also, Modi is a Hindu nationalist and Xi is an ethnic Chinese nationalist. Rulers of ethnostates stick together!

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Not really. See Germany, Italy and Japan. “All of our people stay in our country and all of your people stay in your country” is a good way to make allies with other bigots.