00:00India resumes visas for Chinese tourists amid thawing Tisindia has resumed issuing tourist
00:05visas to Chinese nationals after a five-year gap as the two countries continue to explore
00:10ways to mend their strained relationship.
00:12The Indian Embassy in Beijing made the announcement on Wednesday via the Chinese social media
00:17app Weibo, the state-owned Global Times newspaper reported.
00:21Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said the development was a positive move
00:26and added that China was willing to work with India to improve the facilitation of people-to-people
00:32exchanges.
00:33India suspended visas to China, restricted investments and banned several Chinese apps
00:38after the 2020 military clashes in Gawan Valley killed at least 20 Indian soldiers.
00:43The site of the clash was on the de facto border the line of actual control or lack between
00:47the two countries.
00:49India and China share a border that is more than 3440 km to 100 miles.
00:56Hong Kong have overlapping territorial claims.
00:59The two countries had suspended flights and visa services to each other during the pandemic,
01:03and they remain halted as political tensions skyrocketed in the summer of 2020 following
01:08the clash, but relations have gradually improved.
01:11From 2022, China began resuming visa services for Indians, and there has been a further upswing
01:17since a round of high-level talks between the two sides.
01:19Last year, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines.
01:25of the BRIC summit in Russia last year, where the two leaders agreed to boost communication
01:30to resolve conflicts and improve TIs.In June, India's Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met China's
01:35Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Sun Waidong in Delhi, where the two discussed resuming direct
01:41flights, sharing data on transnational rivers and improving people-centric engagements.
01:46This year, between January and April, China issued 85,000 visas to Indians.In their Weibo post
01:53on Wednesday, the Indian embassy said Chinese citizens could begin applying for tourist visas
01:58from 24 July in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, in South China's Guangdong Province.
02:04The move comes ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's Go Defense Summit, set to be
02:09held in China in August.
02:11Media reports have speculated that Modi may attend the summit.
02:14If he does, it will be his first visit to the country since the 2020 clashes.
02:21of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's Go Defense Summit, at the
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