[Srirangan]

India would never enter into a strategic partnership with China, as long as China sustains Pak. Same case with America. All these reports is just ignorant media hype.

All India and China have agreed to do is to put their clashing claims of territory in the backseat, maintain peace along the border, and solve the dispute on the basis of the current status quo.

Plus ofcourse boost trade. FTA is being talked about. India is perhaps the only country in the world which has a favorable trade balance with China. Fears of the Chinese Threat of flooding the Indian markets ended long ago and a reverse is being spoken about (See Link).

[Jeff Head]

This would indicate differently.

"Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, left, and India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh shake hands during their talks in New Delhi, India, Monday, April 11, 2005. Indian and Chinese leaders Monday agreed to a strategic partnership between the two emerging Asian giants, sealing it with accords aimed at ending a long-standing border dispute and boosting bilateral trade and economic cooperation. "

Try and read the article, the two foreign ministers are holding up the document. I am afraid that this economic partnership is more than hype...disbelief aside.

[Cronos]

India would never enter into a strategic partnership with China, as long as China sustains Pak.

India has been pushed into this by the US selling weapons to Pak. India may see that they have no choice but to dance with the devil and hope not to get too burned.

[razoroccam]

You are right about this being over-blown. As well as the Paki problem. Surprising how many naive folks at FR will believe that India and China will form an alliance. Who was it who said "there is a sucker born every minute"?

However, you are incorrect regarding trade. China has a trade imbalance not only with India but also with Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Indonesia, and a few other countries.

[reluctantwarrior]

WE have agreed to sell F-16s to the Indian Air Force the chinese would love to get their hands on the avionics. The Chinese are purchasing the Su-30 series airframe from the Soveits and it is an airframe that with improved avionics would eclipse the F-16 and even the cahrlie model F-15 and the basic F/A-18

[superiorslots]

Quote: India would never enter into a strategic partnership with China

If you could go back to the 50 or '60's or even the '70's and tell someone that the US is freely sending millions of jobs and hi-tech factories to a communist country (china) they would have had you committed to a mental hospital for the insane.

[Destro]

This is Russia's doing.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

"All India and China have agreed to do is to put their clashing claims of territory in the backseat, maintain peace along the border, and solve the dispute on the basis of the current status quo.

Plus ofcourse boost trade."

That's all? Well, gee, that's nothing.

/sarcasm

That's pretty much what the article reports.