India and China unveiled a slate of confidence-building measures after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a day of talks in New Delhi on 19 August. Wang met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval during the 24th round of Special Representatives’ negotiations on the border question. Both governments said they will resume direct flights "at the earliest" and streamline visa procedures for tourists, business travellers, journalists and other visitors. They also agreed to “facilitate trade and investment flows through concrete measures,” signalling a joint effort to revive commercial ties that slowed after the pandemic and the 2020 frontier clashes. On the border, the sides set up a new expert group under the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination to pursue an “early harvest” on boundary delimitation and promised an early meeting of the military-level General-Officer mechanism in Ladakh. A Chinese read-out said a “new consensus” had been reached on routine management of the frontier and on launching demarcation talks “where conditions are met.” Modi told Wang that relations have made “steady progress” since his October 2024 meeting with President Xi Jinping in Kazan and stressed that “stable, predictable, constructive” ties serve regional and global interests. Wang described the relationship as being on an “upward trend” and urged Beijing and New Delhi to view each other as partners rather than rivals. The diplomacy paves the way for Modi’s visit to Tianjin at the end of the month for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit—his first trip to China in seven years and the latest sign of a thaw as the two nations mark the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations. The rapprochement follows a deadly 2020 skirmish that froze talks and comes amid shifting trade patterns triggered by escalating U.S. tariffs on both Asian powers.