When India comes knocking….
January 7th, 2008 - by Nazia VasiIts time again for some ‘Hindi-chinni bhai bhai’, and everyone’s excited to see what the two super powers do next. India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to visit Beijing, China from the 13-15th of January this year. The return visit (President Hu visited India in 2006) is seen as more of a bridge building, friendly effort rather than a deal striking effort before the elections in India next year. The PM’s visit is seen more as a follow-up visit to Sonia Gandhi’s (the head of the ruling Congress Party) visit a few months ago.
China’s president Hu Jintao & India’s Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.
While Dr Singh’s speech and the diplomats he will interact with are being kept tightly under wraps due to security reasons issues that are expected to be covered are regional stability - following the recent completion of operation ‘Hand in Hand, the India - China joint military exercise, the nuclear deal and 2008’s agenda for business, trade and delegations exchanged between the two countries. The border issue is also expected to be kept alive and given a boost.
The two leaders recently met in Bali and signed an agreement on climate change against the more polluting western powers, so environment is also expected to be on Dr Singh’s agenda. What is also expected to be discussed is the assassination next door.
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January 8th, 2008 at 12:48 am
Have you ever looked through the comments feedback on Indian newspapers that have it? It is almost uniformly anti-PRC. Interesting to note–especially since India’s government actually has to listen to its people.
As someone who has been a “China guy”–studying Chinese, living and working in China–who has just taken a job offer in Bangalore, I think I’ll be perusing this blog quite a bit in the future!
January 8th, 2008 at 6:49 am
This is great for both India and China.
I wouldn’t call them superpower though. They won’t be one for the longest time to come.
January 8th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Blog? Isn’t writing on a blog all about expressing opinions and analysing - 2.6 seems to have become anoother news site!
January 8th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Welcome Janus! We hope you and everybody else who visits our site can contribute and continue to add comments on ‘Chindia’. You can write in about inter-cultural exchanges, politics, economics or anything that really strikes you. The world is getting smaller & interest in both India & China is growing. so keep writing in!
& yes Pffefer, its a big step forward in India - china relations……..lets hope there are many more such ‘friendly’ visits.
January 8th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
At last Chinese are showing some interest in india. The embassy in Biejing issues 50,000 visas this year compared to 30,000 last year.It is these chinese who are going to dictate the future. All these years the chinese used to know India from Foreign affairs while Indians used to know about china from china quarterly and Rodrique macfarhar.Now they are learning about each other directly as guided by Huang psuang and Fahien.
January 8th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Yeah. even i feel Indian newspaper tends to project china in a subtly negative manner. Well, people began to call me Chindia already!
January 11th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Chris et al
Would be interested to hear your views on the announcements we can expect to hear at the upcoming meeting between the 2 leaders.
As you posted previously, will it mean the firming up of the Kolkata-Guanzhou air links?
I hope to visit Kolkata next month and check out the airport. Unfortunately, even though I am proud of my Bengali heritage, I cannot even compare Kolkata and Guangzhou when it comes to ports, infrastructure and worker efficiency. And both of those in “communist” ruled enclaves!
Perhaps an announcement of Chinese investment in one venture or another?