External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrived in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Wednesday, kick-starting his four-day visit to China, during which the boundary row and irritants surrounding it are expected to dominate his talks with the leadership in Beijing.
An India Chair has been established in the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at Shenzen University in southern China.A Memorandum of Understanding on the Chair was signed between the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and SZU by India's Ambassador to China Nirupama Rao and University President Professor Zhang Bigong in Shenzen.Under the MoU, Shenzen University would host a visiting Indian professor in the capacity of a Chair in Humanities and Social Sciences.
Rao is only the second woman to be named for the post of foreign secretary after Chokila Iyer.
Indian Ambassador to China Nirupama Rao and her Chinese counterpart in India, San Yu Si, are among the 19 delegates who will assist the special representatives in the talks.
'India and China have the wise and sage leadership to steer this complex relationship in the coming decades.'
'India in 2020 is a lot better prepared than in 1962.' 'It is no longer a pushover; and anything other than a crushing Chinese military victory will be a major loss of face for China,' observes Rajeev Srinivasan in the first of a three part column.
Suddenly the sands are shifting and even friends are acting strange.
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