The rapprochement is not about Trump's tariffs, but easing tensions on the disputed Himalayan border, writes Harsh V. Pant.

From India recalibrating its foreign policy as ties with the US nosedived and Indian exporters weighing Russia as a viable market, to the UN chief calling famine in Gaza a “failure of humanity” and Iran and European countries agreeing to resume nuclear talks,

India and China are set to resume direct flights after five years as the neighboring countries work on improving diplomatic and air connectivity ties.

From a new border agreement to resuming direct flights and deepening economic cooperation, China and India appear to be entering a new diplomatic chapter following Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's first visit to New Delhi in three years.

India and China are aware of the “very high political, economic and military cost of frozen relations,” he says. “China felt it had pushed India too close to the U.S. while India realized that it was losing its vaunted strategic autonomy by getting too close to Washington and turning Beijing into an adversary.”

For the first time India has overtaken China as the No. 1 exporter of smartphones to the United States, following Apple’s tariff-driven manufacturing pivot to New Delhi.

China and India should see each other as "partners and opportunities" and offer the world "much-needed certainty and stability", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during his first visit to India in three years amid recovering bilateral ties.

China's top diplomat was in New Delhi this week for the 24th round of talks aimed at walking back border tensions.