Will the standoff in Ladakh end? / Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit India tomorrow, the first visit of the Chinese leader after the Galwan conflict

Is the ongoing military standoff on the LAC between India and China in eastern Ladakh going to end? It is being claimed in the news that Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is coming on a two-day visit to India on 24 March. It is likely that both the countries will find an amicable solution to the Ladakh standoff during this period.

This will be the first visit of a Chinese leader to India after the Corona epidemic and the violent conflict between the two countries in the Galvan Valley. Yi will reach New Delhi via Pakistan. There he will attend a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) and the National Day celebrations of Pakistan. In Pakistan, Chinese Foreign Minister Yi has presented a four-point formula to enhance strategic and practical cooperation between the two countries. He explained this in detail in a joint press conference with the Foreign Minister of Pakistan.

Wang Yi can go to Nepal from Delhi. In Delhi, his External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is scheduled to meet. He can also meet other leaders. Foreign Minister Jaishankar and Yi have met many times in many countries including Russia, Tajikistan after 2020, but bilateral relations between the two countries are going soft-heated.

The Chinese Foreign Minister's visit to India assumes special significance in the changed global geopolitical situation after Russia's attack on Ukraine. This will be the first visit by a leader of the two countries to each other after March 2020. China is currently the chair of Russia-India China (RIC) and BRICS.

To find a solution to the Ladakh standoff, 15 rounds of talks have been held between the military commanders of the two countries, but still no concrete solution has been found. Although the troops of both the countries have been withdrawn from some areas of tension, but still more than 50-50 thousand soldiers are stationed there.