Memo to India: It's time to look for common ground

India should pay more attention to its mutual interests rather than differences with China when global challenges are unprecedented, experts in Beijing said yesterday.

China is likely to appear high on the agenda during Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's scheduled meeting with United States President Barack Obama in Washington yesterday (local time).

Obama aims to "reassure Singh on US-India ties", when Washington and Beijing are moving closer to each other than before after the US president's China visit last week.