"Chinese Foreign Minister arrives in Kabul for talks with Islamic Emirate leaders," Ahmad Yasir, a top Taliban government official, said on Twitter.

Wang is also expected to visit New Delhi for talks on Friday, an Indian official said, though neither side has formally announced what would be the highest-level visit since border clashes soured relations two years ago.

The foreign minister was also scheduled to attend a conference of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Pakistan, a close China ally, this week and is also set to visit Nepal on Friday as part of a tour of South Asia.

The Indian government source, who requested anonymity, said Wang was expected to meet Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, and while the agenda was unclear, talks on the Ukraine conflict were expected.

India's foreign ministry declined to comment. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said at a daily news briefing on Wednesday that he had no information to offer.

In a quarterly booklet on Indo-Chinese ties that the Chinese ambassador to India shared on Twitter on Wednesday, Sun Weidong said Beijing was keen to reset relations with New Delhi.

"China has shown the willingness and taken actions to improve the bilateral relations," he wrote. "And, it needs both sides to meet each other half way and properly handle the differences."

Neither China nor India has condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Russia, which refers to its actions as a "special military operation", counts both China and India as friendly powers, having cultivated diplomatic and economic ties since the Cold War era.

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