New Delhi: As the India-China relationship shows concrete signs of thawing—the renewal of direct flights between the two nations—Karishma Mehrotra and Lyric Li report on the restoration of ties for The Washington Post .

In 2020, after the Galwan clashes, cross-border exchanges did not completely halt—570,000 passengers found “indirect” India-China routes in 2024 to continue exchanges.

“Experts say rebuilding the relationship would require time—and real political will—after such a protracted lull,” says the report. “As a consequence of the pandemic and subsequent tensions, the population of Indian students in China dropped from 2,00,000 in 2019 to just 5,000 in 2024, according to India’s Ministry of External Affairs. Chinese capital investment in India—once as high as $8 billion, acco

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