India-China relations have undergone surprising twists and turns in the past few years. Seemingly, complicated deadlocks and dramatic reconciliation efforts mark the relationship between the two Asian giants. This trend has only grown since Narendra Modi assumed the office of the prime minister of India in 2014, and President Xi Jinping acquired the status of the most powerful Chinese leader after Mao Zedong over the past six years. Complicating the situation are the policies of Donald Trump, who both talks of India as a part of the Quad in a “free and open Indo-Pacific” and targets India with trade sanctions. India-China relations continue to be on-again, off-again, while Indo-US relations appear to be newly unsettled.

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