Ending a four-year hiatus, Chinese chief Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi resumed a structured dialogue on the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, in October — after having held solely unscheduled interactions because the 2020 Galwan Valley incident wherein the Chinese and Indian armies clashed over the disputed border that divides them.
This appears to have been an opportune second for the Chinese management to disengage its forces from territorial friction factors and for India to renew border patrols, with each returning to pre-Galwan Valley incident positions.