China unveils 5-pt formula to improve ties with India
20 March 2013 7:21 AM IST
Unveiling a five-point formula to improve relations with India, China's newly elected President Xi Jinping on Tuesday said the resolution of the boundary dispute between the two sides ‘won't be easy’ and pending its final settlement ‘peace and tranquility’ should be maintained on the border without affecting the overall ties.
59-year-old Xi, who took over as the head of Communist Party, President and military chief, completing a rare triad of power, sent clear signals of boosting bilateral relations with India and expressed his keenness to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh next week on the sidelines of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) in his first contact with top Indian leadership after his inauguration.
The first leader born after China's independence in 1949, Xi also spoke of the need for India and China with a combined population of 2.5 billion to cooperate in multilateral fora in to safeguard the ‘legitimate rights and interests’ of developing countries.
He said China sees its ties with India as ‘one of the most important bilateral relationships’.
‘The border question is a complex issue left from history and solving the issue won't be easy.
‘However, as long as we keep up friendly consultations, we can eventually arrive at a fair reasonable and mutually acceptable settlement.
‘Pending the final settlement of the boundary question the two sides should work together and maintain peace and tranquility in the border areas and prevent the border question from affecting the overall development of bilateral relations,’ Xi told reporters in an interview.
The new President was replying to a question on what policy the new Chinese leadership will pursue towards India and whether there would be any change in its position on the border issue.
India asserts that the border dispute covered about 4,000 km, while China claims that it confined to about 2,000 km to the area of Arunachal Pradesh, which it refers as Southern Tibet.
Xi said that first China and India should maintain strategic communication and keep the bilateral relations on the ‘right track’.
‘Second, we should harness each other's comparative strengths and expand win-win cooperation in infrastructure, mutual investment and other areas,’ he said.
Xi said India and China should strengthen cultural ties and constantly increase the mutually expanding friendship between the two countries.
XI JINPING TELLS US OF ‘ENORMOUS SHARED INTERESTS’
Beijing and Washington have ‘enormous shared interests’, China’s new President Xi Jinping told the US Treasury chief on Tuesday in his first major diplomatic encounter since taking office.
‘In the China-US relationship, we have enormous shared interests, but of course, unavoidably, we have some differences,’ Xi said to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Xi, who became head of state last week, added that both countries would derive mutual benefit if they ‘approach and handle this relationship from a strategic and long-term perspective’.
Lew’s visit to Beijing comes amid rising tensions between the countries following US allegations that China has engaged in hacking against US companies, which Washington warned could damage relations. During his two-day visit, Lew plans to press China on cyber-security issues at his meetings with the country’s new leadership, a US official said. (AFP)
59-year-old Xi, who took over as the head of Communist Party, President and military chief, completing a rare triad of power, sent clear signals of boosting bilateral relations with India and expressed his keenness to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh next week on the sidelines of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) in his first contact with top Indian leadership after his inauguration.
The first leader born after China's independence in 1949, Xi also spoke of the need for India and China with a combined population of 2.5 billion to cooperate in multilateral fora in to safeguard the ‘legitimate rights and interests’ of developing countries.
He said China sees its ties with India as ‘one of the most important bilateral relationships’.
‘The border question is a complex issue left from history and solving the issue won't be easy.
‘However, as long as we keep up friendly consultations, we can eventually arrive at a fair reasonable and mutually acceptable settlement.
‘Pending the final settlement of the boundary question the two sides should work together and maintain peace and tranquility in the border areas and prevent the border question from affecting the overall development of bilateral relations,’ Xi told reporters in an interview.
The new President was replying to a question on what policy the new Chinese leadership will pursue towards India and whether there would be any change in its position on the border issue.
India asserts that the border dispute covered about 4,000 km, while China claims that it confined to about 2,000 km to the area of Arunachal Pradesh, which it refers as Southern Tibet.
Xi said that first China and India should maintain strategic communication and keep the bilateral relations on the ‘right track’.
‘Second, we should harness each other's comparative strengths and expand win-win cooperation in infrastructure, mutual investment and other areas,’ he said.
Xi said India and China should strengthen cultural ties and constantly increase the mutually expanding friendship between the two countries.
XI JINPING TELLS US OF ‘ENORMOUS SHARED INTERESTS’
Beijing and Washington have ‘enormous shared interests’, China’s new President Xi Jinping told the US Treasury chief on Tuesday in his first major diplomatic encounter since taking office.
‘In the China-US relationship, we have enormous shared interests, but of course, unavoidably, we have some differences,’ Xi said to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Xi, who became head of state last week, added that both countries would derive mutual benefit if they ‘approach and handle this relationship from a strategic and long-term perspective’.
Lew’s visit to Beijing comes amid rising tensions between the countries following US allegations that China has engaged in hacking against US companies, which Washington warned could damage relations. During his two-day visit, Lew plans to press China on cyber-security issues at his meetings with the country’s new leadership, a US official said. (AFP)
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