'Dr Manmohan Singh and Wen Jiabao can use their great personal rapport to enhance relations between India and China.'
Former Foreign Secretary AP Venkateswaran assesses Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and the secret of his overwhelming popularity
A charismatic leader, 65-year old Wen was the only candidate for the Premiership, ranked third in the Communist Party of China hierarchy after the President and the top legislature speaker. Wen has repeatedly said that he saw India and China not as rivals but as 'friendly neighbours and cooperation partners'.
China on Monday slammed a United States media report alleging that Premier Wen Jiabao's family had amassed over $2.7 billion assets, saying its critics, plotting to create instability in the country, were 'doomed to fail'.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday met Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao with both leaders taking note of the steadily growing ties between the two countries.
Describing the Sino-Indian border row as a "complex issue", Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Tuesday said it cannot be resolved overnight and that "new progress" would be made in the negotiations as long as both countries showed sincerity and "mutual accommodation". "It is no easy task to resolve such a complex issue left from the past and we cannot expect that the issue will be resolved overnight," Wen said.
In a potentially-damaging report ahead of his retirement from politics, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's family was on Friday accused of amassing assets worth at least $2.7 billion, prompting Beijing to denounce the charge as a "smear campaign."
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar addresses Parliament on Operation Sindoor, denying any US trade linkage and highlighting Pakistan's request for a ceasefire through the DGMO channel.
'We are now in a situation where our country is not yet free.' 'China is still very strong and militarily powerful.' 'In such a situation, we need the Dalai Lama to bring about a resolution to the cause of Tibet.' 'That's one of the main reasons that at age 90, he has accepted that there should be a 15th Dalai Lama after him.'
Clude Arpi salutes the Nobel prize committee for giving the peace prize to jailed Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit gave India an opportunity to firmly put its concerns across the table. Though the major issues were not fully addressed, New Delhi will be glad that the Chinese are now, at least, willing to talk about them, observes Sheela Bhatt
The week-long 20th national congress of the Communist party of China began in Beijing on Sunday, October 16, 2022.
The Sino-Indian border agreement would help find a 'fair and reasonable' solution to the historic issue, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will propose to establish the world's biggest Free Trade Area between China and India during his talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh next week.
The Chinese inference is that if the Chinese visa is embossed on an Indian passport, held by Indian citizens from Arunachal Pradesh, it may be tantamount to recognising Indian sovereignty over Arunachal Pradesh, states Rup Narayan Das.
International community has been building pressure on India after US President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced commitments to reduce emissions.
India and China will be holding the second Strategic Economic Dialogue in Delhi later this month with an aim of enhancing business engagement between the two of the fastest growing economies, significantly at a time when the western world is facing crisis.
Chinese leaders on Saturday descended at Tiananmen Square in Beijing and paid tribute to martyrs, as the country marked its 62nd national day, with Premier Wen Jiabao pledging to address the nation's biggest issues, including rising inflation and corruption.
Li Keqiang, Communist Party of China's second ranking leader, was on Friday elected as Prime Minister by the Parliament succeeding Wen Jiabao who retired after a generational transition of power in the world's most populous country.
Addressing the conference, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said as a developing country, China may boast a fairly large economy, but its per capita income ranks around 90th in the world.
US authorities are investigating J P Morgan's hiring practices in China as part of a wider bribery probe
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday night returned home from Cambodia after attending the ASEAN and East Asia Summits which provided India with an opportunity to enhance its economic cooperation with the region amid lingering financial crisis in the West.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh skipped his usual attire of pristine white to take part in a photo-op with United States President Barack Obama and the top leaders of Asia.
Besides, he strongly defended $570 billion stimulus package extended in 2008 to revive the economy, refuting criticism that China paid 'undue price' by relying more on credit investment which ended up creating bad loans.
India and China have already rejected the US' sanctions move.
Chinese premier Wen Jiabao said China will be 'pleased' to see India become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh concluded his three-day visit to Bali on Saturday, where he attended the India-ASEAN meet and East Asia Summit, besides holding talks with US President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao on Monday reiterated that bilateral relations were in a good state. Dr Singh and Wen, who met at Phnom Penh on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit, reviewed the ties during a meeting that may well be their last, as the Chinese leader would be demitting office in March.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday left for Cambodia to attend the ASEAN and East Asia Summits which will provide an opportunity for India to enhance its economic cooperation against the backdrop of crisis in the western world.
Bo, who was replaced by Vice Premier and Politburo member Zhang Dejiang, was known in China for his populist Maoists revival campaign and had been seen as one of the leading contenders to join party's powerful nine-member Politburo standing committee, which virtually governs the country.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Wednesday made a strong pitch for political reforms in the Communist ruled country, warning that a failure to carry out structural corrections could unleash the upheaval of another Cultural Revolution.
China's ruling Communist Party will maintain its "absolute control" over the nation's 2.3 million-strong People's Liberation Army, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Monday, as he announced boosting the military's capability to win "local wars" in hi-tech conditions.
The $33 billion Beijing-Shanghai high-speed train will start commercial operations today.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday vowed to continue their 'all-weather' friendship, as increasingly isolated Islamabad stepped up efforts to drum up support after the killing of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden by American forces in Pakistan.
A New York Times journalist, who has worked in China over a decade, has been forced to leave the country after his visa was not renewed, in an apparent retaliation for the paper's report that alleged Premier Wen Jiabao's family had amassed USD 2.7 billion in assets.
Xi Jinping was on Thursday appointed the new general secretary of China's ruling Communist Party of China in a smooth power transition that ushered in a fifth generation of leaders to steer the world's second largest economy over the next decade, ending the 10-year reign of President Hu Jintao.
Chinese leader Li Keqiang, who is officially projected as the new premier, on Thursday said China should not lose any time in deepening reform in key sectors as the country is going through a period full of "unprecedented risks and challenges."
The importance of political reforms to sustain economic reforms, which was the keynote of the policies advocated by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, has been given less importance in the deliberations preceding the new Party Congress, says B Raman
More than 200 Indian companies have invested in China.
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