Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid begins a two-day trip to China on Thursday, just days after the resolution of a border flare-up that highlighted longstanding tensions between the Asian giants.
Furthermore, the world's two most populous countries have in recent years seen relations improve and trade boom, and both sides had sought to stay low-key over the latest row, which lasted several weeks. While, two-way trade totalled US$69 billion (S$84.7 billion) in 2012, dominated by US$54 billion of Chinese exports to India, figures from the commerce ministry in Beijing show.
On the contrary, ties remain stubbornly tenacious by mutual act of suspecting left over from a 1962 border war high in the Himalayas.
Every problem has some genuine resolution for it and one must look into it in order to overcome the negativity.
(AW:Samrat Biswas)
