India says closer US ties won't distance China (Reuters) Updated: 2005-08-04 06:19
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday his country's warming relations
with the United States would not come at a cost to Asia's other giant,
China, the Reuters reported.
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President Bush raises his glass for a toast with Indian Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh (L) at the White House, July 18, 2005.
[Reuters] | New Delhi's ties with the United
States reached a high point last month when Singh visited Washington and the
U.S. promised cooperation on civilian nuclear work.
"I wish to dispel this opinion that what we have done with the United States
is at the cost of China or any other country," Singh told applauding lawmakers
in the lower house of parliament.
India's powerful communist parties, which prop up Singh's coalition
government, have told New Delhi not to let the U.S. use India as a counterweight
to China.
"We want to be engaged with China, our great neighbor. We want more economic
relations with that great country," Singh said.
The two Asian giants marked 55 years of diplomatic ties this year, and made
progress on a border dispute during a visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to
India in April.
The nuclear powers fought a brief border war in 1962, and China's victory
then still rankles some Indians.
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