India says it has reached a deal with China to patrol disputed border
India and China have reached an agreement on patrolling their disputed border, a senior Indian official said Monday, marking a major thaw four years after bloody clashes between opposing border guards tanked bilateral relations and reshaped geopolitics in Asia. The Indian announcement — which was not immediately confirmed by the Chinese government — came shortly before both Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping were scheduled to arrive in Russia to attend the BRICS summit hosted by Russian President Vladmir Putin, which begins Tuesday. Speculation has been mounting in recent weeks that the neighbors were working toward a diplomatic breakthrough and that Modi and Xi could discuss normalizing relations in a face-to-face meeting on the sidelines of the BRICS conference in Kazan.
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