# India and China will resume direct flights between their two countries this month after a five-year suspension. Direct flights between the world’s two most populous countries were suspended during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and were not resumed as tensions grew between Beijing and New Delhi over border disputes. Relations between the Asian rivals have since thawed, and their leaders spoke in China in August and in Kazan in Russia last year.
India and China resume direct flights for first time since Covid-19 pandemic