Despite Modest Improvement, India-China Relations Face Enduring Challenges

Despite gradual improvements and cautious steps toward economic and border cooperation between India and China, strategic competition will limit the scope for deeper engagement. On Aug. 31, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to China to attend the annual Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Heads of Government Council meeting. This will mark his first visit to China since June 2018, as well as the first since the deadly border clashes between Indian and Chinese troops broke out in the Galwan Valley in mid-2020, which saw bilateral ties plunge to their lowest point in decades....