Wen Jiabao In India

• India, China Release First Encyclopedia of Cultural Contacts

  India and China today released the first encyclopedia on their age-old cultural contacts, tracing back their history to over 2,000 years, starting from the visit of Chinese scholar Huen Tsang to India in the 7th century to bring Buddhist scriptures to China.

• When Barack Obama Forcibly Entered Secret Sino-India-South Africa-Brazil Meet

  At the international conference on climate change in Copenhagen in December 2009, US President Barack Obama forced himself into a room where the then Chinese premier Wen Jiabao was holding a secret meeting with the then Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other leaders.

• Rare gesture: Former Chinese PM hosted lunch for PM Manmohan Singh

  In a rare gesture, former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao today hosted lunch for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh highlighting the special rapport they had established during his tenure.

• PM, Wen Jiabao say there is enough space for India and China to grow

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit on Monday. Both the leaders emphasised that there is enough space for India and China to grow and develop. Both expressed satisfaction that a robust dilague architecture has been put in place between the two countries to take ...

• Aware of need to balance trade with India, says Wen Jiabao

  Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that China is aware of the need for balancing bilateral trade that is heavily in favour of Beijing.

• Prime Minister meets Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday met one-on-one for about 45 minutes in this Cambodian capital, probably one of their last official meetings.

• PM to ask for greater Chinese investment during meeting with counterpart Wen Jiabao

  Trade and investment are expected to be major issues to figure in the meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao today against the backdrop of India's concerns over growing imbalance in trade and lack of market access to Indian investments in certain sectors in China.

• Blog: Sidelights at Rio+20

  Who says summits are boring and don't make for some fun. It's not always about the punctuation in the outcome draft or the informal informals, as the meetings in the run up to the high level session were called. There's always room for lighter moments. Now China's propaganda machinery is well known. But we had a first-hand experience of it when, u...

• India 'jealous' of China's growing clout, says Chinese state media

  Days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held talks with his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao, the state-run media here today said India was "jealous" of China's growing influence in Asia and charged it with instigating "small" neighbours for a "gang fight" against this country.

• PM raises disputes with Wen, brings up South Sea

  Weeks after war of words between India and China over the exploitation of South China Sea resources, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao met in Bali today and agreed on the need for working together as there was "enough space" and areas for them to work together for mutual benefit.

• Stapled visas: Ball in China's court, says India

  It was stressed repeatedly by India as one its "core issues" but no progress has been made during the Chinese Prime Minister's visit on his country's policy of issuing stapled visas to travellers from Jammu and Kashmir. Stapled visas indicate that China accepts Kashmir as disputed territory.China's Wen Jiabao met with Dr Manmohan Singh today for bi...

• No mention of 26/11 in India-China joint statement

  The Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao met with Dr Manmohan Singh today and after the bilateral talks, it was what was left out of the joint statement, rather than what was in it, that was noteworthy.In a pointed break with tradition, there is no mention of India respecting the 'One China' policy, which recognizes Tibet and Taiwan as integral parts ...

• 'Grandpa' Wen comes calling

  Bringing the message of everlasting friendship between India and China, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao mingled with students at Tagore International in Delhi on Wednesday. And whoever thought language barrier could be an issue between the Premier and his audience, then here is what happened.Amidst accolades for his overwhelming words on India-China fri...

• Caught in Wen's security set up, Sonia walks to PM's house

  Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's security set up did not even spare Sonia Gandhi. On Wednesday night, the Congress President had to walk down to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence for a private dinner hosted in honour of Wen Jiabao as a stretch of road was closed for Wen's cavalcade.She walked down almost half a kilometer before she could take a...

• China wants India to be a partner in Asia

  India and China should be partners, not competitors, as the world tilts toward Asia, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China said Wednesday in a speech here to hundreds of businessmen from both countries, his first stop on a three-day tour. "There is enough space in the world for the development of both China and India," Mr. Wen said, "and enough areas ...