Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China for the first time in over seven years, a government source said on Wednesday, in a further sign of a diplomatic thaw with Beijing as tensions with the United States rise.

India is modestly improving economic ties with China — even as New Delhi moves to counter Beijing in other arenas.

The breakthrough in bilateral talks, the first after the Galwan Valley face-off between the soldiers of the two countries at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in June 2020, was made possible after New Delhi and Beijing reached an agreement on patrolling along the nearly 3500-km LAC to end the four-year-long border confrontation.