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Indian and Chinese military commanders met along their Himalayan border over the weekend ahead of a planned meeting of their defense ministers at a Shanghai Cooperation Organization session later this week, officials with knowledge of the matter said.
The neighbours, who share a 3,488 kilometre (2,167 miles)-long disputed border, have been locked in their worst dispute in four decades since the summer of 2020. Previous meetings of diplomats and 17 rounds of military-level talks have yielded only incremental progress.
The neighbours have amassed thousands of troops, artillery guns, tanks and fighters along their frontier. De-escalation — sending troops back to their home bases and disengagement — was discussed over the weekend, the officials said, asking not to be named since discussions were private.