Jaishankar and Wang hold direct talks for more than two hours in Moscow

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and China’s Wang Yi at the RIC Summit (Source: Twitter/SJaishankar)

With the crisis in Ladakh deepening, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held direct talks in Moscow for more than two hours Thursday night to try and dial down tensions along the Line of Actual Control. Until midnight, there was no official word on the outcome of the meeting which took place on the sidelines of a gathering of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

Before their bilateral meeting, Jaishankar and Wang…