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China wants good relations with India and Pakistan: Chinese Envoy | China's envoy to India Zhang Yan today said that his country wants to have good relations with India and Pakistan,and added that Beijing does want its relations with one country to affect the other. Speaking exclusively to ANI on the sidelines of a function
at the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), which was organized to mark the
60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between India and
China, Yan said both India and Pakistan were close neighbours of China. "We don't
want to see relations of one country affect relationship with the other country,
that's not our policy," Yan said. "We hope the three countries (India, Pakistan
and China) join efforts to work together for the betterment of the region and
for betterment of three countries," he added. China and Pakistan are seen as all
weather friends. The Asian dragon is making investments in building huge dams
in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and restive Balochistan province. China has also
helped Pakistan with the building of that country's nuclear reactors and also
remained a key supplier of arms and ammunition. China's cozy relationship with
Pakistan is seen with a sense of skepticism by India, which is competing with
China for economic supremacy in Asia and, both countries have a festering border
dispute on which several rounds of discussions have taken place among the special
representatives of the two countries, but has achieved very little. Speaking on
the border issue, Yan said: "We conduct our relations in a more broader way, not
just focus on border issue. We have more other important areas of cooperation,
more urgent issues to work together." Emphasizing the underlying tensions, Yan
said: "Like any other country, there are problems and differences but, that's
not a big difficulty. I agree we should handle our relationship more actively
and in a more positive way, especially to appropriately handle the difficulties
and the remaining problems between our two countries." Making a veiled reference
to the shrill media reports of Chinese incursions, which dominated the media of
both countries, Yan stressed that both countries should guide public opinion in
fair and just manner. Earlier speaking at the ICWA, National Security Advisor
Shiv Shanker Menon said the emergence of "nativist" voices, and the loud expression
of opinion as fact in the new media which purports to express public opinion,
could introduce volatility in perceptions. "Neither India nor China can afford
misperceptions or distortions of policy caused by a lack of understanding of each
other's compulsions and policy processes," Menon added. On the occasion of 60
years of diplomatic relations between India and China, leaders of both countries
exchanged pleasantries and compliments. External Affairs Minister S M Krishna
will also be making a visit to China on April 5 to flag off the Festival of India
in Beijing. |
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