ALJAZEERA: India and China will study new ways to ease tensions on their ill-defined border after an army stand-off in the Himalayas, Chinese premier Li Keqiang has said during his first official foreign trip.
The number two in the Chinese leadership has offered India a “handshake across the Himalayas”, saying the world’s most populous nations could become a new engine for the global economy if they could avoid friction on the militarised border.
“Both sides believe that we need to improve the various border-related mechanisms that we have put into place and make them more efficient. We need to appropriately manage and resolve our differences,” Li said at a joint news conference in New Delhi on Monday with Manmohan Singh, India’s prime minister… (more)
