India, July 14 -- External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Sunday embarked on a visit to China, where he will hold talks with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on taking forward the process of normalising ties after a four-year Line of Actual Control (LAC) standoff and participate in a meeting of foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) during July 14-15, people aware of the matter said. He is scheduled to arrive in Beijing early Monday.

This will be Jaishankar's first visit to China since bilateral relations were taken to their lowest point in six decades by the military standoff in the Ladakh sector that began in April-May 2020. The two sides reached an understanding on ending the face-off last October, and sin...