External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday said that the ties between India and China have seen some improvement since October last year and noted that the two nations are working on different aspects of it.

In conversation with Kyung-wha Kang of Asia Society on Wednesday, Jaishankar said that India and China are trying to undo some of the damage that happened due to the actions in 2020 and rebuild bilateral ties.

When asked how he sees India-China bilateral relations unfolding under this low geopolitical context of churn, he said, "We had a war with China in '62. It took us 14 years after that to send back an ambassador. It took us 12 more years for a Prime Minister of India to visit that country and from 1988, there was a certain understanding between India and China on the basis of which the relationship was rebuilt. We didn't obviously couldn't solve the problems in most of all the boundary issue, but we built a relationship, we managed it.""There were dialogues and negotiations going on while other parts of the relationship grew, the economic relationship grew, there were more exchanges, people went up, you know, the rest, and even, on the boundary, in fact, we had a series of agreements, which laid out in great detailed protocols on how to manage the boundary, how to deploy, how to ensure that something accidental doesn't happen all the while, you know, negotiations were going on to find a solution to the boundary issue. Now from then, let us, if we use 1988 as a starting point till 2020. While we had incidents along in the boundary in the border areas. We had not actually had bloodshed. The last bloodshed was 45 years before 2020."

He recalled the border standoff between India and China in 2020, which involved a military response on India's side. The border standoff between India and China began in eastern Ladakh along the LAC in 2020, sparked by Chinese military actions. This incident sparked a prolonged rise in tensions between the two nations, significantly straining their relations.