International Law

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits Beijing

By Andy Scott

BEIJING, Jan 14 - Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh began a three-day State visit yesterday arriving in Beijing for talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao. The visit, the first State visit by a sitting Indian Prime Minister for five years, comes during rapidly growing bilateral ties between the two countries, and follows Sonia Gandhi’s preliminary visit to Beijing last October, as well as a visit by Hu Jintao to India in 2006, itself the first by a Chinese president in a decade.

Dr. Singh’s itinerary will see him officiate at the opening of a joint Sino-Indo medical project, meet with Hu JIntao and the senior legislator Wu Banguo, a visit to the Olympic Village, and a speech to be delivered to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Accompanying Dr. Singh on the trip are the Indian Minister for Commerce, Kamal Nath, and the presidents and chairmen of several major Indian multinationals, including Anil Ambani of Reliance, who will be meeting with their Chinese counterparts. (more…)

Full post as published by China Briefing Blog on January 13, 2008 (boomark / email).