India accuses China of aggressions amid border stalemate
by Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi and Aakash Hassan i from on (#6B896)
Li Shangfu arrives in Delhi for summit as situation along 2,100-mile line of actual control' remains on knife-edge
India's defence minister has accused China of border aggressions that that have eroded the entire basis" of their relationship, as negotiations between the two nuclear powers remain at a stalemate.
On Thursday, China's defence minister Li Shangfu landed in Delhi for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit. It is the first visit to India by a Chinese minister since 2020, when 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers died in clashes along the Himalayan border in Ladakh and the two sides came the closest to war for almost 70 years.
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