India, Aug. 27 -- In early February 2020, when the world was still debating the Wuhan flu, Indian airlines operated their last direct flights to China. Soon, the world would come to a stop, and the only flights between India and China were Air India's rescue missions for Indians in Wuhan.

What started as a precautionary measure, later became a geopolitical impasse, when the Indian Army and People's Liberation Army of China in Galwan, Ladakh.

But even as the prime minister mentioned "three" nations supporting Pakistan in the aftermath of Operation Sindoor earlier this year, there's fresh bonhomie brewing between India and China after Washington imposed additional tariffs on New Delhi. That raises the spectre of a faster resumption of civ...