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India, China have enough space to prosper globally: President Patil

May 26, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

On Board Air India One, May 26 (ANI): Playing down China’s nuclear help to Pakistan in establishing reactors and underscoring the border disputes, President Pratibha Devisingh Patil said on Wednesday that the Sino-Indian relationship is progressing on a friendly path.

President Patil’s six-day visit to China gains importance in wake of growing irritants in the Sino-Indian relationship like usage of the waters of the Brahmaputra, reported violation of the Indian border by the Chinese Army, and providing nuclear reactors to Pakistan.

Patil is visiting China from May 26-31 and is expected to hold discussions with the Chinese leadership on all controversial issues.

“India and China’s friendship is progressing well. We have a strategic and cooperative partnership. We have also attained pronged strategy for mutual cooperation, and when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited China in 2008, the two countries concluded a “Shared Vision for the 21st Century” which forms the basis for bilateral cooperation on global issues,“ she told reporters on board Air India One.

“We are progressing on the friendly path and you must have seen that in the Copenhagen Climate Change summit, on the framework on basics, we operated very well. India and China both have a future together and there is enough space in the world for both the countries to fulfill their aspiration of development so that they can grow and prosper together,” she added.

Commenting on her visit, which coincides with the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between India and China, President Patil said her visit is part of the process of high-level contacts between the two countries.

She said that India and China are two large and populous countries and both of them are focussed on enhancing economic growth and social progress, so there are many areas in which the two countries can exchange views and learn from each other””s experiences.

She said that as developing nations, India and China have similar approaches and viewpoints on many global issues.

India and China have successfully carried out close cooperation within such international frameworks as G-20, BRIC countries and BASIC countries.

The two countries also coordinated with each other at the UN Copenhagen Climate Change Summit. (ANI)

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Militant infrastructure in Pakistan still a concern: Antony

May 12, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 12 (ANI): Defence Minister A K Antony on Wednesday said Pakistan”s militant infrastructure is still a matter of concern for India.

Reacting to a query about the resumption of talks between India and Pakistan at a time when there is an increase in infiltration attempts across the Line of Control, Antony said such attempts by militants are a matter of concern.

“Talks will continue, but at the same time we are very much concerned about the existence of more than 40 terrorist camps in Pakistan. And, our view is that Pakistan must take sincere and strong steps to dismantle these terrorist outfits,” said Antony after inaugurating the Controllers” Conference of the Defence Accounts Department.

Speaking about the China-India relations, the Defence Minister said that the bilateral relations between the two countries are improving, in spite of the border issue.

“Military relations are improving. We had joint exercise with the Chinese army. Again, we will have joint exercise with them. And this year, our Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar had gone there for discussions,” said Antony.

“So, on the whole, the relations are improving, even though that border dispute is still there. On the whole, our relation with China is comparatively better. Our border is peaceful,” he added. (ANI)

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Student activists in Coimbatore protest against Chinese incursion

September 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Coimbatore, Sep 19 (ANI): Activists of a right wing students union staged a demonstration Coimbatore against the alleged incursions by the Chinese army into Indian territory.

Activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad or All India Student’s Council gathered in Coimbatore city headquarters with banners and placards and demanded central government to take steps to protect the country from Chinese aggression.

” We request the central government and Tamil Nadu government to take important steps against China to protect our nation,” said Saravanan, a protestor.

Officials sources have said that Chinese troops entered nearly 1.5 kilometres into the Indian territory near Mount Gya, which is recognised as the international border by India and China, and painted the word ‘China’ in Cantonese on the boulders and rocks there with red spray paint. The incursions were reported from the area generally referred in the Chumar sector in east of Leh.

The 22,420 ft Mount Gya, also known as “fair princess of snow” by the Army is located at the tri-junction of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir, Spiti in Himachal Pradesh, and Tibet. Its boundary was marked during the British era and is regarded as International border by the two countries.

The border patrol discovered the red paint markings on various rocks and boulders along the Zulung La (pass) on July 31 and the Chinese had entered into the area and written “China” all over the place, the sources said.

Indian soldiers later erased the text, writing ‘India’ instead. (ANI)

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NSA to convene China Study Group meeting to discuss incursion fallout

September 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Sep.17 (ANI): National Security Advisor M K Narayanan will hold a meeting of the China Study Group – consisting of top officials including Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar and Secretaries of Defence, Home and Foreign Ministries – here today.

The meeting is expected to take stock of the situation along the Sino-India border, official sources said.

Besides Chandrasekhar, the meeting will be attended by Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar, Home Secretary G K Pillai and Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao.

Top officials of the three armed forces and the Intelligence Bureau will also attend the meeting.

The meeting assumes significance in wake of recent reports of incursions by the Chinese army in Ladakh, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh, involving the air dropping of expired food canes, painting of rocks red among others.

Another media report said that two Chinese Sukhoi fighters had transgressed into Indian air space last month.

The Indian Air Force, however, says no unscheduled flight inside Indian air space had taken place last month. (ANI)

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NSA to convene China Study Group meeting to discuss incursion fallout

September 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Sep.16 (ANI): National Security Advisor M K Narayanan will hold a meeting of the China Study Group – consisting of top officials including Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar and Secretaries of Defence, Home and Foreign Ministries – on Thursday (September 17).

The meeting is expected to take stock of the situation along the Sino-India border, official sources said.

Besides Chandrasekhar, the meeting will be attended by Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar, Home Secretary G K Pillai, oreign Secretary Nirupama Rao. Top officials of the three armed forces and the Intelligence Bureau will also attend the meeting.

The meeting assumes significance in wake of recent reports of incursions by the Chinese army in Ladakh,Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh, involving the air dropping of expired food canes, painting of rocks red among others.

Another media report said that two Chinese Sukhoi fighters had transgressed into Indian air space last month.

The Indian Air Force, however, says no unscheduled flight inside Indian air space had taken place last month. (ANI)

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China expresses concern over US embassy’s expansion plans in Islamabad

September 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Islamabad, Sep.5 (ANI): China has expressed concerns over reports of a massive expansion of the US embassy in Islamabad.

Addressing a press conference here, Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Luo Zhaohui said that the expansion of the American embassy should be in accordance with the rules and regulations of Pakistan and should respect its sovereignty.

“China has concerns over expansion of US embassy in Islamabad and the United States should expand its embassy by materializing rules and regulations of Pakistan,” Zhaohui said.

Responding to a question, Zhaohui said Beijing has no plans to station its security forces in the Chinese embassy in Islamabad, as it is satisfied with the security cover being provided by the Pakistan government.

“We have no plan to deploy Chinese Army in our consulate,” The Nation quoted Zhaohui, as saying.

Zhaohui also raised questions over the US’ AFPAK policy, and said that Pakistan should not be linked with Afghanistan, as it is a sovereign state unlike its neighbour where the US led allied forces are engaged in a brutal battle against extremism for the last eight years.

“China is against using the term Af-Pak for Pakistan, as it is a sovereign state which should not be compared with Afghanistan where the US and allied forces are battling against insurgency,” he said.

Earlier, Interior Minister Rehman Malik had rejected media reports that the US is planning to send more Marines to Pakistan.

Malik said the news that US has hired 300 houses in Islamabad was ‘baseless’.

“US, China and Turkey have applied for extra land for extension of their embassies. akistan is a sovereign country, who ever come to Pakistan should have to obey the laws and regulations of this country,” Malik said.

He also rebutted reports regarding the presence of controversial US firm ‘Blackwater’ inside the country’s territory.

“Blackwater is not operating in Pakistan-we have our own system, rules and regulations-we will not allow any body to operate from here,” Malik said. (ANI)

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Army confirms violation of Indian air space by Chinese copters

September 1, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Aug 31 (ANI): The Indian Army on Monday said that China violated the Indian air space in Leh in Jammu and Kashmir.

Army Spokesperson Northern Command, Colonel Kachari said, “It has happened. That is confirmed. But there is nothing alarming in it. I have given a written reply and that is the correct version.”

Two Chinese helicopters reportedly violated the Indian air space in the recent months in Leh.

The helicopters air-dropped some canned food in a barren land at Chumar, northeast of Leh, along the border on June 21.

The MI series helicopters were reported by residents living along the Pangong lake.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army has been crossing over into the Indian side in this region quite frequently with August reporting the maximum number of incursions.

In August this year, Chinese patrols have entered into the Indian territory 26 times and walked away with petrol and kerosene meant for jawans of the border guarding forces.

The Chinese Army had made 223 attempts last year and left tell-tale signs.(ANI)

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China, US military talks aim to look for common grounds

June 23, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Beijing, June 23 (ANI): Chinese and US military officials will seek ways to cooperate on various issues, including maritime disputes and nuclear disarmament, when they meet for the 10th Defense Consultative Talks (DCT) here on Tuesday.

“There are many areas for cooperation, despite disagreements. Both sides have the same need for cooperation,” China Daily quoted a member of the delegation, as saying.

According to him, issues at the two-day dialogues are likely to include the Korean Peninsula, the Taiwan Straits and Afghanistan.

The sessions will be attended by a US delegation led by Michele Flournoy, the undersecretary for policy with the US Department of Defense, and a Chinese delegation led by Lieutenant General Ma Xiaotian, deputy chief of the general staff of the People’s Liberation Army.

The talks will be held at the headquarters of the PLA Central Military Commission, the Chinese army’s top command.

The last DCT session was in Washington 18 months ago.

Military exchanges were frozen until February, after the Bush administration announced plans to sell 6.5 billion dollars in arms to Taiwan.

“The Obama administration has the tone of not letting disagreements affect the cooperation in common interests,” Tao Wenzhao, an expert on US studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said.

Chinese and US naval vessels have had several confrontations since early March.

The latest incident saw a Chinese submarine damage an underwater sonar array towed by the US destroyer USS John S. McCain on June 11 in the South China Sea. Both sides played down the collision and said it may have been an “accident”.

A senior official from the US Department of Defense confirmed the sides will address the confrontations, but said cooperation with China is “on the upswing”. (ANI)

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German parliamentary rights experts call trip to Tibet one-sided

April 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Beijing – Members of a German parliamentary delegation allowed to visit Tibet said Monday that they were constantly escorted by Chinese minders during their trip and said it was deeply one-sided.

Holgar Haibach, the head of the four-member delegation from the human rights committee of the German Bundestag, said many of the group’s questions were not answered and their minders in Lhasa, Tibet’s capital, wanted to give the Germans the impression that all was normal in Tibet.

“The one-sidedness was formidable,” he said, adding that the delegation was not allowed to visit a prison during its three-day stay in Lhasa.

The delegation added that the Chinese army’s presence there was unchanged and massive.

Haibach said the Chinese minders told the delegation that all monks went voluntarily to “patriotic education campaigns,” but one monk told the delegation that participation was required.

The campaign was introduced after deadly unrest in March 2008 in Tibetan-populated areas of China. While the Chinese side has accused the Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism’s spiritual leader, of provoking the unrest, trials nearly two weeks ago in which four Tibetans were sentenced to death for fatal arson fires did not present any findings on the accusation, delegation member Burkhardt Mueller-Soenksen said.

The trip was the first by German human rights experts since the outbreak of the protests against Chinese rule.

Another committee delegation travelled at the same time to the far-western region of Xinjiang, where Muslim Uigurs complain of oppression from China’s government.

The delegations had earlier discussed the death penalty; administrative detention, which in China can be ordered without trial; and other human rights issues while in Beijing.

There were always two “red lines” in the discussions with Chinese authorities, Haibach said: Neither Chinese national unity nor the authority of the Communist Party could be called into question.

Delegation member Juergen Klimke called the visit a success even when many of its questions went unanswered. “When they say nothing, that also provides insight,” he said. (dpa)

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Chinese terracotta army is of servants, not warriors, claims expert

April 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, April 14 (ANI): A Chinese professor has theorized that the famed terracotta army of Xi’an region of the country are not soldiers, but royal servants and bodyguards.

If this theory by Liu Jiusheng at Shaanxi Normal University proves to be true, it might turn China’s most important archeological discovery upside down.

Most historians believe the 2,200-year-old clay statues buried near the emperor’s tomb represent an army custom-made to guard him in the afterlife.

But, according to Jiusheng, they are royal servants and bodyguards, most likely modeled after high-ranking Qin dynasty officials.

Liu argues ordinary soldiers weren’t allowed to get close to the emperor, even in death.

Furthermore, Liu says the figures stand at around 190 cm, much taller than average Chinese past or present. Liu theorizes the clay statues were probably made taller to show their elevated social status.

Though not widely accepted, experts say Liu’s argument is worth studying.

The 1,000-strong terracotta army was discovered near Xi’an in 1974. It was listed as a world heritage site by UNESCO in December 1987. (ANI)

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Trial date of Wen shoe-thrower changed over “sensitivities”

April 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London – The trial of a German academic accused of hurling a shoe at Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao at Cambridge University in Britain has been brought forward to avoid it clashing with events marking the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

German researcher Martin Jahnke, 27, was due to go on trial on June 2, 3 and 4 on charges of having “harassed, alarmed or distressed” the Chinese premier during his visit to Cambridge on February 2.

But the city’s magistrates court said Tuesday that the trial dates had been switched to June 1, 2 and 3 because June 4 is the 20th anniversary of the shooting by the Chinese army of pro-democracy protestors in Beijing.

Prosecutor Punam Malhan told the court that staging the trial on the anniversary created “concerns” and “security issues.” The court’s legal advisor also said that June 4 would be a “sensitive date.”

Jahnke, a researcher at the university’s pathology department, is alleged to have thrown a shoe at Wen while he gave a lecture to students during his visit to Britain two months ago.

Jahnke has admitted throwing a shoe – which narrowly missed Wen – but denies having caused harassment, alarm or distress.(dap)

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China capable of launching cyber attack on UK

March 29, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Mar. 29 (ANI): Intelligence chiefs have cautioned the Gordon Brown Government about the possibility of China launching a cyber attack on Britain’s telecom system.

British Telecom’s new communications network has been installed by Chinese telecom giant ‘Huawei’, which is allegedly funded by Beijing and has links to the People’s Liberation Army.

In case of a war like situation, China could use BT to halt critical services such as power, food and water supplies, Times Online quotes intelligence officials, as saying.

In January, the Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, Alex Allan, briefed a ministerial committee led by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith about the threat from China, Whitehall sources have claimed.

Allan then expressed concern because government departments, the intelligence services and the military were all going to use the new BT network.

The ministerial committee on national security was told that Huawei components that form key parts of BT’s new 10 billion pound network might already contain malicious elements waiting to be activated by China.

Experts seconded intelligence chiefs’ warnings.

“If an unauthorised person were able to gain control of the equipment, its mode of operation could be changed. The ability to move traffic across the network could be switched off. Traffic could be re-routed to another node controlled by the attacker,” said John Tindle, professor in telecommunications engineering at Sunderland University.

Chinese hackers have a history of targeting western networks, and the Chinese Army is reputed to hold an annual competition to recruit the country’s best hackers

In 2007, computers at the Foreign Office and other Whitehall departments were attacked by Chinese hackers. Later, the MI5 Director-General Jonathan Evans warned 300 British businesses that they were under Chinese cyber-attack Two years ago, Chinese Trojan horse spy ware was found in the offices of Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor. (ANI)

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Exiled Tibetans observe candlelight vigil in Dharamsala

March 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Dharamsala, Mar 1 (ANI): Hundreds of exiled Tibetans in Dharamsala participated in a candlelight march on Saturday to pay homage to a martyr of the Tibetan freedom struggle who had self-immolated himself during a prayer festival in China.

The monk was shot dead by the Chinese police.

Exiled Tibetans said they were concerned about the incident.

“A monk in Kirti monastery self-immolated and the greater concern for us is, that even though he was in flames, he was shot at by Chinese army people. So we are not sure whether we succeeded to shots or burns but, things in Tibet are getting really tense and unbearable for Tibetans living here,” said B. Tsering, president of the Tibetan Women’s Association.

Matt Whitticase, a spokesman for the Free Tibet Campaign, said, “The monk immolated himself after walking out of a monastery in Aba County, an ethnic Tibetan area in Sichuan province. He was carrying a Tibetan flag with a picture of the Dalai Lama.”

The month of March marks the 50th anniversary of the exile of the Dalai Lama. The Tibetan spiritual leader had to flee Lhasa in 1959 after a failed insurrection against China. (ANI)

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Exiled Tibetans observe candlelight vigil in Dharamsala

March 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

The monk was shot dead by the Chinese police.

Exiled Tibetans said they were concerned about the incident.

The month of March marks the 50th anniversary of the exile of the Dalai Lama. The Tibetan spiritual leader had to flee Lhasa in 1959 after a failed insurrection against China. (ANI)

Chinese Army not interested in engaging in an arms race

January 16, 2009 By Rajesh Leave a Comment

Beijing, Jan.16 (ANI): The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will not engage in any arms race and its development does not pose a threat to any country, a senior military official has said.

The China Daily quoted Huang Xueping, deputy director-general of the Information Office of the Ministry of National Defense, as saying in an interview China was not building up its military power, or changing its defensive policy, or aiming to expand its military presence worldwide.

“The Somali mission shows China’s efforts to undertake its international obligations as a permanent member of the UN Security Council and our determination to preserve regional stability and peace. Of course, it also demonstrates our confidence in the PLA’s handling of various security threats and accomplishing of diversified military missions,” Huang said.

“But it never signaled that we were deviating from the defensive policy. We also tell the world candidly that the Chinese defense policy is always defensive in nature’,” he said.

Huang said the modernization of the Chinese armed forces is aimed at preserving national sovereignty, security and reunification of the country.

China’s military budget last year was an estimated 417.769 million Yuan (61.101 million USD), about 1.4 percent of its GDP.

Huang said China would continue to carry out comprehensive military exchanges with other countries and fill its obligation as a major country in the future. (ANI)

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India, China have enough space to prosper globally: President Patil

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