Secret deal: Why India and China suddenly became friends after years of conflict

Last month a game-changing shift happened between India and China (two countries that dont get along much). On oct-21 they made a deal about who can patrol where in eastern-Ladakh: places called Depsang and Demchok which India couldnt access since mid-2020

The deal came with more good stuff: both sides will move their soldiers back from front-lines‚ and they already set-up no-fight zones in other spots. Just two days later Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping had a face-to-face meeting at BRICS – first time in forever

Three big reasons made this happen. First one is money: India wants to grow super-fast and needs Chinaʼs stuff (like metals and machine parts); Chinaʼs growth is slow now so it wants Indiaʼs big market. Second: both sides got tired of keeping lots of soldiers in cold mountains – its expensive and pointless. Third: both countries want to show USA they have other friends

Hereʼs what they need to fix next:

• Get soldiers to move back home (but its harder for India cause of bad roads)
• Make new rules about using drones and watching buffer-zones
• Fix money problems - China sells $85 billion more stuff to India than it buys
• Sort out other fighting spots in Arunachal Pradesh

Right now both sides are trying to make things work better; even though they still dont trust each other much. They know its better to be friends than enemies in todays world – especially when dealing with other big countries

The whole thing started changing when they agreed about patrolling rights and buffer-zones: its like they drew lines saying “you stay on your side‚ we stay on ours“. Now they need to keep talking about business deals and removing extra soldiers from the mountains