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BEIJING—China said Tuesday it hopes to boost military cooperation with India as the two Asian powerhouses resume defense ties that were frozen for a year over a visa dispute.

An Indian military delegation arrived in the Chinese capital on Sunday for a six-day visit that is expected to include a trip to the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang, Indian officials have told Agence France-Presse.

“The military exchange is an important part of China-India relations,” foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a regular briefing.

“China would like to make considerable effort with the Indian side to enhance exchange and cooperation between the two militaries.”


India suspended military exchanges in July last year after Beijing refused to provide a proper stamped visa to the then head of India’s Northern Army Command, which controls the region of Indian Kashmir.

China controls a sliver of Kashmir and regards the region, which is also split with Pakistan, as disputed territory. India has been angered by its practice of providing special stapled visas for visitors from Indian Kashmir.

Major General Gurmeet Singh, who is leading the eight-member delegation, heads the Delta Force, part of a specialized anti-insurgency unit deployed in Kashmir.

Suspicion pervades relations between the two Asian giants amid border disputes over Kashmir and the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.

The two also fought a short war in 1962, while the presence in India of Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, adds to the tension.

China seeks better military ties with India | Inquirer News
 
India, China end freeze in military exchanges

By Li Xiaokun and Cui Haipei (China Daily)

Delegation scheduled to hold talks in Beijing, Shanghai and Xinjiang

BEIJING - India and China have resumed military exchanges after nearly a year's freeze over a visa dispute, which experts from both sides said will end an embarrassing impasse between the neighbors.

An eight-member Indian military delegation, headed by Major General Gurmeet Singh, arrived in Beijing on Sunday for a six-day visit, a senior Indian defense official told Agence France-Presse earlier.

The delegation is scheduled to visit Chinese military units and hold talks with its counterparts in Beijing, Shanghai and the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

AFP said Singh, the delegation chief, is the head of the Delta Force, part of a specialized counter-insurgency unit deployed in India-controlled Kashmir.

A spokesman for the Indian embassy in Beijing confirmed the delegation arrived on Sunday afternoon but did not reveal details. The Chinese Ministry of National Defense has yet to comment on the visit.

India suspended military exchanges in July last year after Beijing provided a stapled visa instead of a stamped one to the then head of India's Northern Army Command. The command controls part of disputed area of Kashmir.

The issue was resolved after China started issuing regular visas to residents from the disputed area, including some reporters who covered the BRICS summit in the southern Chinese city of Sanya in April.

"We decided to pause defense exchanges because of these differences of opinion," a source in the Indian government told AFP earlier on condition of anonymity.

"There were still phone calls and other contacts, but now, with this visit, we are seeing the resumption of normal, full-scale military exchanges," said the official.

The decision to resume defense cooperation was reached during talks between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Hu Jintao in China in April.

The Hindu, an Indian newspaper, said the two countries also agreed to resume the annual defense dialogue due to take place in New Delhi.

Defense exchanges between the world's fastest growing economies have lagged far behind their trade and diplomatic ties, they said.

China is India's largest trade partner and the two nations have cooperated on issues ranging from global financial reform to climate change.

Srikanth Kondapalli, a professor of Chinese studies at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, told Reuters that not having defense talks was a "symbol of mistrust".

"It breeds more suspicion if they are not talking," Kondapalli added.

Uday Bhaskar, director of the New Delhi-based think tank National Maritime Foundation, said the visit is symbolic.

"It does not represent any breakthrough in solving the disputes," Bhaskar said. "Major generals in India do not decide policy ... That can happen only at the political level."

"But with this engagement you create space for political rapprochement," he said.

Wan Wei, a researcher at the Academy of Military Science of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, said that the renewed contact at least meant that two countries had put the visa dispute behind them.

"It is a symbolic move and I think it helps to strengthen mutual trust and cooperation on international issues."

Commenting on recent Indian media claims that China is trying to "encircle" India, Fu Xiaoqiang, an expert on South Asian studies at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, said the comments reflected a Cold War mentality, which partly resulted in the impasse in the past year.

"India has always regarded China as a potential No 1 rival, but China does not view India in the same way," Fu said.


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India, China end freeze in military exchanges
 
Actions speak louder than words China. The ball is in your court!

I personally think, this has nothing to do with the Americans and its Government, when ever you guys come in between the Indian and Chinese. we both move 100's of KM's apart and the American Government if happy in its bed time of achieving what it always wanted and that would be (Make sure we never get together)
 
What I do not understand sometimes is how can we have a military relationship. Hey do not get me wrong I am not a China bash-er, in-fact I admire them, but we do have a possibility of war right and we do have to prepare against each other. So what do we do in these exercise?
 
I personally think, this has nothing to do with the Americans and its Government, when ever you guys come in between the Indian and Chinese. we both move 100's of KM's apart and the American Government if happy in its bed time of achieving what it always wanted and that would be (Make sure we never get together)



Im of Indian descent. That;s not true. China has been propping up failed regimes and working against India;s interests for years. Who do you think helps Pakistan establish parity with us?
 
Im of Indian descent. That;s not true. China has been propping up failed regimes and working against India;s interests for years. Who do you think helps Pakistan establish parity with us?

That is because we have their most wanted man in our soil. If Lama is a real hero, he should have not fled to India, causing India greater problems. We have a habit of saving anyone who comes to our door steps and beg for mercy and Lama used it.
 
What I do not understand sometimes is how can we have a military relationship. Hey do not get me wrong I am not a China bash-er, in-fact I admire them, but we do have a possibility of war right and we do have to prepare against each other. So what do we do in these exercise?

Sorry mate, your understanding of foreign affairs is wrong, we are not in a mode of a fist fight, we just claim a piece of land for each other, that does not put us into a war. We do resolve all outstanding issues with dialogs and not guns
 
What I do not understand sometimes is how can we have a military relationship. Hey do not get me wrong I am not a China bash-er, in-fact I admire them, but we do have a possibility of war right and we do have to prepare against each other. So what do we do in these exercise?

It is certainly an important confidence building measure . If at all there is a slight possibility of conflict it is due to the perceptions of PLA thinktanks that India is conniving with Western powers aka America to surround China and "must be taught a lesson " et cetera et cetera....

The Border dispute can be resolved through negotiations.

So these military relations should go a long way in alleviating some of their concerns. Not that either they or we will ever drop our guard because of this but it will certainly keep relations stable and reassuring.
 
I think regular increase in military exchange will definitely help us because it looks like Beijing and military have some difference on issues....
 
That is because we have their most wanted man in our soil. If Lama is a real hero, he should have not fled to India, causing India greater problems. We have a habit of saving anyone who comes to our door steps and beg for mercy and Lama used it.




Nah bro....what China did was wrong. By invading Tibet, it is a bigger headache for us. Imagine how beneficial it would been to deal with Tibet for resources, border issues, and peace. China at the end of the day does not want india to come up on top.
 
Nah bro....what China did was wrong. By invading Tibet, it is a bigger headache for us. Imagine how beneficial it would been to deal with Tibet for resources, border issues, and peace. China at the end of the day does not want india to come up on top.

I don't want to be on top of any one, All what I want is no more suffering for any one be it Indians, Pakistanis or any one from the world. If invading Tibet was a issue, the UN along with US, USSR and the rest of the world should have opposed China unanimously. The issue is that the UN is just a puppet body that does nothing other than writing reports that some event happened in some place and we can not find what is the reason,.
 
That is because we have their most wanted man in our soil. If Lama is a real hero, he should have not fled to India, causing India greater problems. We have a habit of saving anyone who comes to our door steps and beg for mercy and Lama used it.

Yeah India should never supported this guy.
 
Russia, India and China should be allies :P

Russia and India is fine and, similarly, Russia and China is fine, but not Russia, China and India. It doesn't work. Although i have to commend the Chinese side for this initiative.
 

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