A date with the Taj

Then Chinese premier Zhu Rongji's six-day trip to India in 2002 included a strategic photop in front of India's most famous landmark.

With wife Lao, Zhu traveled to Agra on the first day of their stay in India; the excursion producing a memorable picture just as then Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's visit to the Great Wall of China in 1988 had.

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