New Delhi . Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh will meet Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun on November 20. This meeting will take place at the ASEAN conference to be held in Laos next week. This will be the first ministerial-level meeting between the two countries after the disengagement between the two armies in eastern Ladakh last month and the Indian Army resuming patrolling in the Depsang area last week.
Defense ministers of both the countries are meeting for the first time after April 2023. Earlier, China’s then Defense Minister Li Shangfu had come to Delhi for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit. Last month, Prime Minister Modi and President Xi Jinping met in Russia. After this this meeting will now take place.
In fact, there was tension between India and China over the border dispute in eastern Ladakh for four years. After two years of long negotiations, an agreement was reached that both the armies would retreat from the disputed points Depsang and Demchok.