Pending a mutually acceptable solution of the border row, china suggested India to “properly handle frictions and questions thereof” by maintaining the momentum of high-level exchanges, strengthening economic and defence cooperation, and by coordinating their positions on global issues such as economic crisis, climate change, energy and food security.
This was a recurrent theme of the two-day talks, between Chinese state councilor Dai bingguo and national security adviser concluded here over the weekend. Mr.Dai, who conveyed the greetings of Chinese president Hu Jintao and also handed over a written message of greeting from premier Wen Jiabao to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said china took a positive view of India’s development and progress, and also supported a bigger role for India in international affairs. He iterated china’s commitment to consolidate the strategic and cooperative partnership, established in 2005, in all fields in a comprehensive way.
A Xinhua report cited Mr.Dai as also saying that in the next several years, china and India would have “a rare time period of opportunity” to solve their boundary issue. China experts such as Mohan Guruswamy from the centre for policy alternatives, Srikanth Kondapalli of Jawaharlal Nehru University and Phunchok Stobdan from the institute for Defence studies and analyses did not anticipate anything different emerging from the 13thround of the border talks, but so did a section of the Chinese media.
A China Daily report said the latest round of talks was hardly expected to make substantive progress. It quoted Fu Xiaoqiang, a scholar on south Asia at china institute of contemporary international relations, as saying that the border issue was complicated and the talks would at best serve to improve understanding between people of the two countries.
Further, china maintained that both sides should Endeavour to build “strategic mutual trust” to pave the way for resolution of “the questions left over from history”
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