India, July 11 -- External affairs minister S Jaishankar will visit China this weekend for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting. The SCO is a China-led multilateral alliance which has nine permanent members, including India and Pakistan.

Jaishankar, who will be on a three-day trip to the country starting July 13, will also hold bilateral talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi before the SCO meeting, as reported by Hindustan Times earlier.

This will be Jaishankar's first visit to China in over five years, and after bilateral ties hit their lowest in six decades following a military standoff at the Line of Actual Control beginning April-May 2020.

During the bilateral talks in Beijing, both Jaishankar and Wang are repor...