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While addressing the 14th ASEAN-India summit, the PM noted that growing radicalism and spread of extreme violence are the other security threats.
India and China will not rush to resolve differences over their contested border even as there has been steady progress in the overall relationship, said External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid.
Modi assured Trump that India will try to 'live up to the expectations' of the US and the world and also thanked the US President for speaking 'highly' about India during his trips.
Many call her South east Asia's Michelle Obama. Considered to be a style icon, China's First Lady Peng Liyuan also topped Vanity Fair's list of International best dressed women in 2013. In India, accompanying her husband China's President Xi Jinping on a three-day visit, she has won many hearts with her style and elegance. During the Ahmedabad leg of her visit, Peng changed her clothes twice, displaying her chic, elegant and beautiful style.
Prime minister likely to visit Beijing, Shanghai; also President Xi's home province, Shaanxi. Nayanima Basu reports
Jaitley said each of the regions in the world is trying to do its best.
In a diplomatic breakthrough, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe on Monday held their maiden talks, marking the "first step" towards mending ties between the two Asian rivals after years of territorial disputes and animosity due to wartime history.
Trump lauds Modi, saying he has been working successfully to bring the vast country and its people together.
India will look to play a key role in the APEC, EU and Africa regions to increase its competitiveness.
His view will be shaped by his perception of US world interests and India's economic performance relative to China.
While inaugurating the leadership summit of the US-India Business Council in Washington, DC, US Vice President Joe Biden said that there was no reason why the two largest democracies in the world should not continue to have a more productive relationship. Aziz Haniffa/ Rediff.com reports.
Any additional effort to assuage the growing worldwide hunger for infrastructure funding is more than welcome, says Barun Roy.
China's intended role for AIIB is not so different from the existing Western lenders like the World Bank.
Modi knew in his heart that India does not have the financial muscle to support the new bank with offers of co-financing international projects, something China can do from the bank's base in Shanghai. If established in Mumbai, it may have employed a few Indian bankers and satisfied the national ego but there was little financial value to be drawn from it.
Modi and Obama surely put India-US ties in fast-forward mode. But 5 things deserve careful attention.
All the three issues raised by China at the Modi-Xi meeting are either intractable or peripheral to the bilateral relations and suggest conventional methods to placate the other side without yielding much, says Srikanth Kondapalli.
'If I had not been elected President of the United States, we would right now, in my opinion, be in a major war with North Korea,' Trump said.
'This is the first time the US has formally recognised the threat India faces from terrorist organisations based in Pakistan.'
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'Both Japan and China face a common challenge: How to deal with Trump.' 'The trade war with the US seems to have facilitated/hastened Abe's China visit, the first by a Japanese prime minister since 2011,' points out Dr Rajaram Panda.
The 'Missing link in India's Act East Policy', as India's former foreign secretary Shyam Saran calls it, needs to be filled sooner rather than later, says Dr Rahul Mishra.
President Xi Jinping's visit may put relations between India and China on a new trajectory
'As in the Panchatantra tale of the cat and the monkeys, it is possible for the clever swing State to play off the two competing powers.'
PM Modi seems to be gradually ending India's strategic ambiguity
'In the past the US has been reluctant to name Pakistan directly in an US-India joint statement.'
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