National Security Advisor Ajit Doval is scheduled to arrive in Beijing on Monday (August 24, 2026) to take part in the India-China Special Representatives (SR) talks on the boundary issue with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.
Mr. Doval and Mr. While there is no official confirmation about Mr. Xi’s visit, officials on both sides are optimistic about the Chinese leader’s participation, which could provide an opportunity for a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the summit to discuss initiatives to take forward bilateral ties. Ahead of Doval-Wang talks in Beijing, External Affairs Minister S.
Wang are scheduled to hold the 25th round of SR talks on Tuesday (August 25), according to official sources. The upcoming talks assume significance as they are being held ahead of the much-anticipated visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to India to attend the BRICS summit in New Delhi on September 12, 13. Jaishankar on Saturday (August 22, 2026) reiterated that peace and tranquillity along the border areas are prerequisite for good relations with China. Jaishankar said at the Economic Times World Leaders Forum in New Delhi on Saturday (August 22).
“I think we went through a particularly bad patch between the summer of 2020 and the autumn of 2024, and that was primarily an outcome of the situation in the border areas,” Mr. “At the end of the day, peace and tranquillity in the border areas is a prerequisite for good relations, and the state of the border, to a very large measure, naturally would determine the state of the relations,” he said. On the reports of stepped-up Chinese military activity near the Arunachal Pradesh border, China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Guo Jiakun said on August 12 that the China-India border situation is “generally stable at the moment”. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal on August 11 said that India considers matters relating to border areas with China as “most serious” and asserted that maintaining peace and tranquillity along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) is of “utmost importance” , as the state of the frontier will govern the overall trajectory of bilateral ties.
