India's Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri will visit Beijing on Jan. 26-27 for talks to discuss the next steps in ties with China, which were frozen following a military clash on their border in 2020, the Indian foreign ministry said on Thursday.

Top diplomats from China and India will meet next week in Beijing as the nuclear-armed neighbors try to repair ties marred by a border dispute nearly five years ago.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sparked a sharp rebuke from Beijing over his comments on the South China Sea in one of his first foreign policy statements since taking office.