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DELHI: India on Monday took a tough line ahead of Chinese President Xi
Jinping's visit to India later this month. "For India to agree to a
one-China policy, China should reaffirm a one-India policy," external
affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said."When they raised with us the issue of Tibet and Taiwan, we shared their sensitivities. So, we want they should understand and appreciate our sensitivities regarding Arunachal Pradesh," the minister said.
India has refused to endorse the "one-China" policy since 2010, removing it from a joint statement during the visit of former premier Wen Jiabao to New Delhi.
Describing the India-China relationship as being "very good" but one of "competition and cooperation", Swaraj promised the forthcoming visit by Xi Jinping to India would be "substantial and sol
She played down Modi's remarks in Japan which were believed to be aimed at China, saying those were actually not aimed at anyone. This was an attempt to gloss over a remark which must have rankled in China while making Modi's Japanese hosts happy. Swaraj said, "He never referred to any specific country. It was media's guess. He spoke about 18th century expansionism." Addressing Japanese businessmen, PM had taken a swipe at China, albeit without naming the country. "There are 18th-century-style ways and thinking that involve expanding (geographically) by taking away the land of another nation and going into seas," he had said. Swaraj said she was headed to Afghanistan in the next couple of days. Later this month, she said, India and Bangladesh would discuss the land boundary agreement and Teesta water sharing pact at the forthcoming joint consultative commission (JCC) meeting on September 20. "The Land Boundary Agreement was already introduced in Rajya Sabha and referred to the select committee. The select committee has been reconstituted now. Political consultations are under way," she said.
However, Swaraj was caught off-guard while fielding a question on the prospect of Scotland's independence. It was clear that she had not been briefed by her officials that there was a definite possibility of Scotland breaking away from Britain. Swaraj reacted incredulously when asked how India viewed the prospect of the possible break-up of UK. After gathering her thoughts, she said India would go with what Scotland wanted. onika jaiswal
Beijing: Chinese
President Xi Jinping will make his first visit to India as head of state
on a regional visit starting this week which will also include a trip
to Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Tajikistan, the foreign ministry said on
Tuesday.
Xi will begin his trip in Tajikistan where he will attend a meeting of
the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on Thursday and Friday, the
ministry said.
China, Russia and four Central Asian nations—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan—formed the group in 2001 as a regional
security bloc to fight threats posed by radical Islam and drug
trafficking from neighbouring Afghanistan.
After that Xi will travel to the Maldives, Sri Lanka and India, on a
visit which ends on 19 September, the ministry said, without giving
exact dates for when he will be in each country.
The ministry provided no further details, though over the weekend it
said that Xi had postponed a trip to Pakistan which had originally been
part of his tour due to ongoing unrest in the country.
From economic parity in 1980, China’s growth has outstripped India’s
fourfold and Beijing has sought to recycle some of its vast export
surpluses into foreign investments in resources and infrastructure in
South Asia to feed its industrial machine.
That rising economic presence in the Indian Ocean region has stoked
concerns in New Delhi that China is creating a “string of pearls” that
surrounds India and threatens its security.
While China and India have close economic and historical links, there is
deep suspicion too, fuelled in part by a festering border dispute.
Asian great-power diplomacy has stirred to life since the rise to power
of Indian nationalist Narendra Modi, who announced his intent to play an
active role on the world stage by inviting regional leaders to his
inauguration in May.
Although Modi seeks pragmatic economic engagement with China, in Tokyo
earlier this month he criticized countries with an “expansionist”
mindset, a coded jibe against Beijing’s assertive behaviour in Southeast
Asia.
Last week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe began visits to Bangladesh
and Sri Lanka. Reuter
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Beijing: Chinese
President Xi Jinping will make his first visit to India as head of state
on a regional visit starting this week which will also include a trip
to Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Tajikistan, the foreign ministry said on
Tuesday.
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Beijing: Chinese
President Xi Jinping will make his first visit to India as head of state
on a regional visit starting this week which will also include a trip
to Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Tajikistan, the foreign ministry said on
Tuesday.
Xi will begin his trip in Tajikistan where he will attend a meeting of
the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on Thursday and Friday, the
ministry said.
China, Russia and four Central Asian nations—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan—formed the group in 2001 as a regional
security bloc to fight threats posed by radical Islam and drug
trafficking from neighbouring Afghanistan.
After that Xi will travel to the Maldives, Sri Lanka and India, on a
visit which ends on 19 September, the ministry said, without giving
exact dates for when he will be in each country.
The ministry provided no further details, though over the weekend it
said that Xi had postponed a trip to Pakistan which had originally been
part of his tour due to ongoing unrest in the country.
From economic parity in 1980, China’s growth has outstripped India’s
fourfold and Beijing has sought to recycle some of its vast export
surpluses into foreign investments in resources and infrastructure in
South Asia to feed its industrial machine.
Read more at: http://www.livemint.com/Politics/t5INOqvIc9lreBru1a7PHP/Chinas-President-Xi-Jinping-to-make-first-visit-to-India.html?utm_source=copy
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Beijing: Chinese
President Xi Jinping will make his first visit to India as head of state
on a regional visit starting this week which will also include a trip
to Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Tajikistan, the foreign ministry said on
Tuesday.
Xi will begin his trip in Tajikistan where he will attend a meeting of
the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on Thursday and Friday, the
ministry said.
China, Russia and four Central Asian nations—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan—formed the group in 2001 as a regional
security bloc to fight threats posed by radical Islam and drug
trafficking from neighbouring Afghanistan.
After that Xi will travel to the Maldives, Sri Lanka and India, on a
visit which ends on 19 September, the ministry said, without giving
exact dates for when he will be in each country.
The ministry provided no further details, though over the weekend it
said that Xi had postponed a trip to Pakistan which had originally been
part of his tour due to ongoing unrest in the country.
From economic parity in 1980, China’s growth has outstripped India’s
fourfold and Beijing has sought to recycle some of its vast export
surpluses into foreign investments in resources and infrastructure in
South Asia to feed its industrial machine.
That rising economic presence in the Indian Ocean region has stoked
concerns in New Delhi that China is creating a “string of pearls” that
surrounds India and threatens its security.
While China and India have close economic and historical links, there is
deep suspicion too, fuelled in part by a festering border dispute.
Asian great-power diplomacy has stirred to life since the rise to power
of Indian nationalist Narendra Modi, who announced his intent to play an
active role on the world stage by inviting regional leaders to his
inauguration in May.
Although Modi seeks pragmatic economic engagement with China, in Tokyo
earlier this month he criticized countries with an “expansionist”
mindset, a coded jibe against Beijing’s assertive behaviour in Southeast
Asia.
Last week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe began visits to Bangladesh
and Sri Lanka. Reuters
Read more at: http://www.livemint.com/Politics/t5INOqvIc9lreBru1a7PHP/Chinas-President-Xi-Jinping-to-make-first-visit-to-India.html?utm_source=copy
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