India-China reopening yet to reach Himachal’s annual Tibet-border trade fair

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(TibetanReview.net, Nov14’25) – India and China have been slowly reopening each other to business, pilgrimage, tourism, and flight services in recent months after a freeze in bilateral ties that lasted some five years as a result of border clashes in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley in mid-2020. However, the reopening is yet to reach the centuries-old historical India-Tibet border trade fairs across the length of the Himalayas.

As the International Lavi Trade Fair in the Shimla district’s Rampur, about 130 kilometres from India’s Himachal Pradesh state capital, opened this year on Nov 11, one problem stands out – it is no longer international because the Tibet border still remains closed.

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