New Dekhi, Sept. 14 -- The 25th round of Special Representatives (SR) talks, co-chaired by National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing in August 2026, ended with India and China reaching an eight-point consensus, featuring plans for new military hotlines and additional border meeting points.

China, which has been illegally occupying 2.5 square kilometres (sq km) of Tibet since 1951, grabbed approximately 43,180 sq km of Indian territory. It began with consolidating 38,000 sq km of Indian territory in the Aksai Chin region during the 1962 India-China War. India and China have been holding formal political and diplomatic negotiations to resolve their border disputes for 45 years, dating back to the ...