New Delhi, March 20 -- India on Thursday named veteran diplomat Vikram Doraiswami, currently the high commissioner to the United Kingdom, as its next ambassador to China at a time when the two countries are engaged in the process of rebuilding their relationship after a prolonged military face-off on the Line of Actual Control (LAC). Doraiswami is perceived as one of the ablest senior diplomats who has served as the envoy to Uzbekistan, South Korea and Bangladesh before he was sent to London in September 2022. He is expected to take up his new assignment shortly, the external affairs ministry said in a brief statement announcing his appointment as the high commissioner to Britain. In Beijing, Doraiswami will replace Pradeep Rawat, who has played a key role in the normalisation of India-China ties since the two sides ended a more than four-year standoff in Ladakh sector of the LAC in October 2023. Since then, the two sides have revived the Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimage and resumed direct flights, while India has eased restrictions on both visas and direct investments from China. P4...