India and China discuss border standoff dragging on since 2020

NEW DELHI -- Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks on Thursday on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's summit in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, amid a lingering border standoff between the neighboring Asian giants.

This was the first high-level contact between the two sides since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government secured a third five-year term last month.