New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is set to visit India on August 18 for discussions under the Special Representative mechanism, IANS reported on Wednesday.

The visit comes ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's upcoming trip to China to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit, set to be held in Tianjin later this month. China expressed that it welcomes PM Modi’s participation in the summit.

"China welcomes Prime Minister Modi to China for the SCO Tianjin Summit. We believe that with the concerted effort of all parties, the Tianjin summit will be a gathering of solidarity, friendship and fruitful results, and the SCO will enter a new stage of high-quality development featuring greater solidarity, coordination, dynamism and productiveness," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said during a press briefing.

PM Modi's visit will be his first to China since the Galwan clash in 2020, which severely strained bilateral ties.

The breakthrough in bilateral talks, first after the Galwan Valley face-off between the soldiers of the two countries at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in June 2020, was made possible after India and China reached an agreement on patrolling along the nearly 3500-km LAC to end the four-year-long border confrontation.

In July, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar visited China to attend the Meeting of the Council of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Tianjin. He also held discussions with his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the meeting. He also called on Chinese President Xi Jinping, along with his fellow SCO Foreign Ministers.

Earlier in June, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh visited China to attend the SCO Defence Ministers Meeting. India had refused to endorse the joint declaration at the meeting, citing the exclusion of concerns around terrorism as a key reason.

During his visit, Singh met his Chinese counterpart, Admiral Don Jun, and the two leaders had a "constructive and forward-looking exchange of views" on issues related to bilateral ties.

In June, National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval also visited China to attend the 20th Meeting of the SCO Security Council Secretaries. In his intervention at the meeting, he highlighted the need to shun double standards in the fight against terrorism and take decisive actions against UN-proscribed terrorists and entities like LeT, JeM and their proxies and dismantle their terror eco-systems.

(With inputs from IANS)

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