India wants peaceful competition with China
New Delhi: The Prime Minister said that India has to take adequate precautions but not not give up hope of peaceful resolution of issues with China.
Talking to editors in New Delhi, Dr Manmohan Singh said that relations between the two Asian giants continues to be a mix of competition and cooperation and the effort should be to create a milieu in which there can be peaceful competition.
Dr Singh was replying to questions on Beijing’s refusal to issue a visa to a senior army officer from Jammu and Kashmir and its insistence on issuing stapled visas people of the state.
About Pakistan, the Prime Minister maintained that it was his sincere belief that India had to engage it regardless of the complexity of the set up in that country.
He said at the same time one has to also be sensitive to the Indian public opinion after the Mumbai terror attacks.
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