Analysts suggest that India and China are cooling down border tensions by focusing increasingly on expanding cooperation in trade and security. Their recent discussions in New Delhi centered on the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, signaling a shift in their strategic focus.

A cautious reset in India-China relations is taking root, according to analysts, with the two rivals increasingly walling off their border disputes from expanding cooperation on trade, security and multilateral diplomacy. The clearest marker yet came last week in New Delhi, where the two sides held their first-ever bilateral consultations focused exclusively on the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the Eurasian security bloc that also includes Russia, Iran, Pakistan and four Central Asian...