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The Centre for National Renaissance (CNR)-in association with the John Fairbank Centre, Harvard University , US, and the Institute for International Studies & Centre for China in the World Economy, Tsinghua University, China
- organized an International Conference on India-China-US Triangle
during January 21-23, 2008, at the SCMS
Campus.
Here
are some excerpts from the News that
appeared in the National dailies about the
Conference :
India, China need must address "trust deficit": Jaswant
Kochi | Tuesday, Jan 22 2008 IST .
as appeared in http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20080122/874390.html
Strategic relationship with China unlikely
Wednesday January 23 2008 00:26 IST
ENS http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20080122/874390.html
International
conference on India-China-U.S. triangle
begins in Kochi
Aim
of the meet is to highlight critical issues,
says Subramanian Swamy
The
next round of the conference will be held at
Tsinghua University, China
KOCHI:
An international conference on the
‘India-China-U.S. Triangle,’ attended by
eminent scholars on the subject, began here
on Monday.
The
three-day event is being organised by the
Centre for National Renaissance, New Delhi,
in association with John Fairbank Centre,
Harvard University, U.S.; the Institute for
International Studies and Centre for China
in the World Economy, Tsinghua University,
China.
In
his address at the inaugural session,
Education Minister M.A. Baby said China had
built a mutually-beneficial relationship
with the U.S. without sacrificing its
interests. India’s relationship with the
U.S. should also be built without
sacrificing the nation’s interests, he
said.
Important
initiative
Terming
the conference a very important initiative,
Mr. Baby said the Communist Party of India
(Marxist) had a very clear perception about
the relationship among India, China and the
U.S. The bedrock of the relationship between
India and China was its mindset for
strategic and economic development. India
and China could determine the course of
international events in a very big scale
through this relationship, he said.
Strategic
ties
Subramanian
Swamy, chairman of the New Delhi-based
Centre for National Renaissance, said the
aim of the conference was to highlight
critical issues such as the economic and
strategic relations between India, China and
the U.S.
He
said that the conference would deliberate on
the bilateral and trilateral relations of
these three nations in the coming decades.
It would be of extraordinary global
interest, as India, China, and the U.S. were
the most populous nations of the world, he
said.
Highlighting
the need to remove misunderstandings between
the three nations, Dr. Swamy said the next
round of the conference would be held at
Tsinghua University in China. It would be an
annual conference.
“I
am committed to setting up a centre
focussing on the India-China-U.S.
triangle,” he said.
In
his welcome address, G.P.C. Nayar, chairman
of the SCMS Group of Educational
Institutions, said the conference would
discuss various issues related to India,
China and the U.S.
Speakers
The
speakers include John Garver of Georgia Tech
University, U.S.; Yan Xuetong, Director,
Institute of International Studies, Tsinghua
University; S. Krishnaswamy, former Air
Chief Marshal; Pan Zhenjiang, former PLA
General, Tsinghua University; Jaswant Singh,
former External Affairs Minister; Sujit
Dutta of the Institute of Defence Studies
and Analysis, India; Roderick Macfarquhar of
Harvard University; M.D. Nalapat, Professor
of Peace Studies, Manipal University; Sun
Zhe of Tsinghua University; Sanjay Baru,
Media adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh; Marshal Goldman of Harvard
University, U.S.;
Yitzhak Shichor of Hebrew University of
Jerusalem; Li Dao Kui, Professor of
Economics, Tsinghua University; Penelope
Prime of Mercer University, U.S.; Dwight
Perkins of Harvard University; S.J. Burki,
former Finance Minister of Pakistan; N. Ram,
Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu; Tang Lu of
Xinhua News Agency, China; Dr. Swamy; Yan
Xuetong of Tsinghua University; Salman
Haidar, former Foreign Secretary; Merle
Goldman of Harvard University; Wang Yijiang
of Tsinghua University; Hu Shisheng,
Director, South Asia Studies, CICIR, China,
and J. Panda of IDSA, India.
Natural
gas has become a new-age economic weapon:
Goldman
K.A.
Martin , The Hindu (Reported at http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/23/stories/2008012356091500.htm
)
China
spends a lot on infrastructure”
By
The Hindu Staff Reporter
[ http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/24/stories/2008012455341300.htm
]
Future of
India-U.S.-China triangle will be
invention-based: expert
By
The Hindu Staff Reporter [
http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/24/stories/2008012455311300.htm
]
U.S. policy on Pakistan a disaster: Jaswant
By Staff Reporter , The Hindu http://www.thehindu.com/2008/01/23/stories/2008012360131400.htm
“India should move forward realistically while fostering ties with China”
The former External Affairs Minister, Jaswant Singh, speaks at the international conference on ‘’The India-China-U.S.A Triangle’ in Kochi on Tuesday. Others from left are the former Air Chief Marshal, S. Krishnaswamy, the former People’s Liberation Army General, Pan Zhenjiang, and Janata Party leader Subramanian
Swamy, and Dr. GPC Nayar, Chairman, SCMS
Group
“Bring
Russia into India-China-U.S. equation”
By
G.
Krishnakumar , The Hindu
It
has to be quadrilateral while formulating
broader principles of cooperation: N. Ram
KOCHI:
Russia has to be brought into the
India-China-U.S. equation, N. Ram,
Editor-in-Chief, The Hindu, said on
Wednesday.
Participating
in a discussion on ‘Sino-Indian Relations
and the U.S.’ held as part of the
international conference on
‘India-China-U.S.A. Triangle’ here, Mr.
Ram said it had to be quadrilateral
especially if “you are formulating broader
principles of cooperation.”
He
said: “If these three countries can
cooperate, show cause why, given the strong
links, Russia should not be brought into the
equation.”
Improvement
in ties
Describing
Russia as very important for both China and
India, Mr. Ram said the relationship with
Russia, which had declined in the case of
India for a long time, now bounced back.
Pointing
out that a resurgent Russia with a powerful
leadership was throwing challenges in the
international arena, Mr. Ram said the
rebalancing of international relations or at
least regional relations, bringing in Russia
as well in many ways including energy and
defence cooperation and also in the
political sphere on issues of Iran, would
make a profound difference today.
Defining
event
Pointing
out that the defining event in India-China
relations came about at the initiative of
Deng Xiaoping, Mr. Ram said the Chinese
leader gave the message about the need to
get together to Foreign Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee in 1979 and to Rajiv Gandhi in
December 1988 particularly on the boundary
question, which was a great obsession in
India at that point of time.
“I
remember it like yesterday Deng saying to
Rajiv Gandhi and earlier to Vajpayee as well
that by all means let us try to resolve this
question. But if we cannot, Deng said, let
us put it to the side and go along improving
relations all around. While it was difficult
for the political India to swallow those
words, that is exactly what has happened
over time.”
Giving
credit to successive governments for seeing
the light in India-China relations that many
people were advocating earlier and building
them extremely well, Mr. Ram said the only
residual issue seemed to be how to manage
the line of actual control.
“There
is no line. In a sense, it is a reality but
also perception,” he said.
Referring
to the document “A Shared Vision for 21st
Century,” signed during the recent China
visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Mr.
Ram said the agreement on ensuring
sustainable development of both countries
against the backdrop of increasing
uncertainties in the global economy was one
of the key formulations. The second key
formulation was that this partnership
“will have a positive influence on the
future of the international system.”
Suggesting
that this vision had to be taken forward,
Mr. Ram said trade between the two nations
was galloping ahead. He said trade targets
had been met two years ahead of schedule.
“I am sure that the target of $60 billion
will be overfulfilled by 2010.”
Referring
to the boundary issue, Mr. Ram said it was
not going to be resolved any time soon. The
progress had been at snail’s pace since
the exercise was undertaken in 1988 although
both governments had instructed and
re-instructed their special representatives
to accelerate the pace.
Mr.
Ram pointed out that it would be very hard
for any Indian government if the settlement
came assuming that it would involve some
kind of transfer of population and ceding
territory.
Recommending
that Indian foreign policy should give up
the tilt towards the U.S., he said much of
the concerns in India particularly of the
Left with government policies related to the
idea of strategic partnership with the U.S.
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