Posts Tagged ‘china’
Bonding At Copenhagen Cemented India China Relations
In the backdrop of the global financial crisis and the drastically evolving international situation in 2009, China-India relations generally maintained the momentum of stable development and made new progress. In 2009, China and India witnessed frequent high-level interactions. Chinese President Hu Jintao held talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and and the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) summits in Yekaterinburg, Russia, as did Premier Wen Jiabao with Manmohan Singh at the East Asia Summit in Thailand and the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference.
India to lose No 1 gold importer tag
Is India slipping as the No 1 gold importer in the world? While in 2008, India imported 420 tonnes of gold, the yellow metal that the country imported in 2009 plunged by more than 100% to touch a little over 200 tonnes.
Decade of opportunities
Next week the world enters a new decade, the second of this millennium. Because the years to come belong to the future, there is always an uncertainty as to how they will unfold. In the last decade, the one that will end on December 31, India has clinched three key issues. First, it has more or less eliminated all the constraints on the Indian economy. Second, the politics of caste that so debilitated the Indian polity since 1990, have reached their finite limit.
China training, arming militants against India
they had been receiving their training at camps in China and arms from Chinese manufacturers. The information emerged after the group’s chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa and its deputy commander-in-chief Raju Baruah surrendered to Indian authorities near the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya state, along with eight others, on Dec 4 morning, reported the Hindustan Times online Dec 5.
India and China oppose foreign climate oversight
China and other major emerging economies will not allow international supervision of their actions to slow climate change to be part of a deal at UN talks in Copenhagen, a [...]
India bar international media from Dalai Lama visit
Indian officials clamped down Monday on journalists covering the Dalai Lama’s trip to a disputed border area in an apparent effort to minimize tensions with neighboring China.
China has protested the Tibetan spiritual leader’s weeklong visit to the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh that began Sunday after months of rising friction between India and China.
The Dalai Lama was holding prayer meetings and teaching sessions with adherents in the Himalayan town of Tawang, near the frontier with Chinese-controlled Tibet.
India refused to allow foreign journalists to travel to Tawang to cover the trip and tried to keep local reporters away from the Dalai Lama on Sunday.
As the Dalai Lama inaugurated a hospital wing in Tawang on Monday, Leki Phuntso, a media official with the state government, told waiting reporters they were “requested” not to ask any questions.