The coming weeks will see a never-before intense bilateral engagement between India and China at the highest levels.
While it's known that External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be visiting China in the last week of this month to attend their respective ministerial meetings of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Qingdao, what is not known as of now is that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be embarking on a bilateral visit to China next month, ahead of his already scheduled multilateral visit to China in June to attend the SCO summit.
Besides, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval is also likely to visit China later this month with a special message from PM Modi.
The already scheduled China visits of Swaraj and Sitharaman will have rich bilateral content too, and would be deemed as preparatory visits for PM Modi's bilateral visit to China which is yet to be announced, but likely to take place in first week of May.
The two countries are in close touch for Modi's bilateral visit, which, if everything turns out as per the two sides' expectations, promises to be hugely substantive and a potential game changer in bilateral ties of the two Asian giants. Beijing was very keen that PM Modi undertake his bilateral visit to China in April itself but New Delhi suggested to wait till Swaraj and Sitharaman return from China in the last week of this month.