'China's basic purpose of taking the Shaksgam Valley was access to the Indian Ocean.'
Hu hoped that India and Pakistan would maintain the momentum of dialogue and jointly improve bilateral ties to promote peace, stability and development in South Asia.
'For the first time, all major countries are discovering India's indispensability to their own foreign policy interests.'
Did Oli turn to India when he realised that China was backing unity of the Nepal Communist Party rather than the government led by his faction?
China wants India to put behind the 1962 war as an 'unfortunate' thing of the past. The two countries should strengthen their military ties and formalise a border management pact under which their troops will not fire at each other. The Chinese assessment was conveyed to the Indian defence ministry's team which visited Beijing on January 14 and 15 for the third round of the Annual Defence Dialogue between the two countries.
'To deal with a bully, you have to deal from a position of strength, not a position of weakness.'
Given the importance of Vietnam and its perpetual fear of big brother China, India must improve its relations with all the ASEAN countries, says Colonel (Dr) Anil Athale.
'Why has the peace been kept?' 'Basically because there is a balance.' 'Maybe they think that balance has changed.' 'People can make mistakes. People can miscalculate.' 'If that is the cause, then I think what we have done, matching their build-up, etc, it is giving a good account of ourselves in the face-offs.'
'Only when China treats India as an equal can we consider them real friends.'
'The Modi-Xi and Modi-Obama meetings, with an interval of just 12 days, are juxtaposed superbly at a crucial point in the prime minister's life. Can Modi carve out a win-win situation with the superpower and the emerging superpower at the same time?'
'With the recent challenging of the notion of the Indian Ocean Region being India's strategic backyard, China is gradually upping the ante in the maritime realm around India.'
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