{"id":69160,"date":"2025-01-28T09:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T00:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/28\/india-and-china-agree-to-resume-direct-flights-for-first-time-in-five-years"},"modified":"2025-01-28T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T00:40:09","slug":"india-and-china-agree-to-resume-direct-flights-for-first-time-in-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69160","title":{"rendered":"India and China agree to resume direct flights for first time in five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The development is the latest sign of thaw in diplomatic relations between the world\u2019s two most populous nations<\/p>\n<p>India and China have agreed in principle to resume direct flights between the two nations, nearly five years after the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent political tensions halted them.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement on Monday came at the conclusion of a visit to Beijing by New Delhi\u2019s top career diplomat and heralds the latest signs of a thaw in the frosty ties between the world\u2019s two most populous nations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/28\/india-and-china-agree-to-resume-direct-flights-for-first-time-in-five-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The development is the latest sign of thaw in diplomatic relations between the world\u2019s two most populous nationsIndia and China have agreed in principle to resume direct flights between the two nations, nearly five years after the Covid-19 pandemic and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-india"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69161,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69160\/revisions\/69161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}