India, July 4 -- External affairs minister S Jaishankar is expected to visit China in the third week of July to attend a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) foreign ministers' meeting and for bilateral meetings with key Chinese leaders, people familiar with the matter said.

This will be Jaishankar's first visit to China since bilateral relations were taken to their lowest point in six decades by a military standoff in Ladakh sector of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) that began in April-May 2020. Since India and China reached an understanding on ending the face-off last October, Jaishankar has met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the margins of multilateral events several times.

Jaishankar is expected to travel to Beijing for a bi...