The military of India and China are holding the first round of military-level border talks in 5 months ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) defense ministers' meeting, scheduled for April 27-28, Indian media reported on Sunday.
Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh will hold a bilateral meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Li Shangfu, at the SCO defense ministers’ meeting to discuss tensions in the Ladakh region.
India and China have thousands of square miles of disputed borderlands between them, from the Ladakh region, which is triangulated with Pakistan's Kashmir claims, to Arunachal Pradesh to the east of Bhutan. Border conflicts are a permanent fixture of India-China relations, as both countries do not have a marked border but rather the line of actual control, created after the 1962 border war between the nations.