Amid LAC stalemate, defence ministry-funded think tank hosts Chinese scholars, discusses ways to rebuild trust

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New Delhi:A defence ministry-funded think tank hosted top scholars from the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) and discussed ways to rebuild trust between India and China amid a stalemate at the Line of Actual Control (LAC)...

This is the first physical meeting between the two sides since tensions broke out at the LAC in 2020 after Chinas ingress into Indias territory in eastern Ladakh, leading to the biggest-ever military build-up between the two countries since the 1962 war...

Our institute, i.e., the MPIDSA (Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses), and SIIS are old MoU partners..

Think tanks are Track II, and their job is to talk, he said.. MPIDSA wrote in a post on X that both sides discussed ways to rebuild trust between the two countries..

They also exchanged views on global and regional strategic issues, it said.. Scholars from @IDSAIndia and SIIS #Shanghai discussed ways to rebuild trust between the two countries..

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