Pradeep Rawat to take over as India’s next envoy in China
The Hindu
The outgoing envoy, Mr. Misri, called on the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on December 6, a week before he returned to New Delhi.
The Ministry of External Affairs on Monday said Pradeep Kumar Rawat, a Mandarin-speaking career diplomat, will take over as envoy in Beijing.
Mr. Rawat, Ambassador to the Netherlands, will replace Vikram Misri, who completed a close to three-year term earlier this month.
The next envoy will take charge amid the worst phase in relations since the normalisation of ties in the 1980s, with a crisis along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), triggered by transgressions by the Chinese military starting in April 2020, as yet unresolved and thousands of troops of both sides still deployed in forward areas.
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