China and India have agreed to establish a strategic and cooperative partnership

China and India have agreed to establish a strategic and cooperative partnership for peace and prosperity, according to a joint statement signed by visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi Monday. The two sides agreed that China-India relations have now acquired a "global and strategic character."

Premier Wen is paying an official visit to India from April 9 to 12 at Prime Minister Singh's invitation, the last leg of his four-nation South Asia tour that has also taken him to Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.



The following is the full text of the Joint Statement of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of India:

http://www.china.org.cn/english/2005/Apr/125627.htm

 

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Wow, now there are old rivals teaming up that will form a powerful team... but that news is a lil old dont you think?

 

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And it seems that it isn't working as advertised.

 

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What, the peace or the prosperity...

 

Cooperation

 

They are not cooperating?

 

India is trying to edge out China as the main supplier of weapons in South East Asia, and in the oil markets they are undercutting each other when ever possible.

and

China Threatens India Eminence
India has long ruled Asia in terms of churning out high-level software professionals. ... The fear is that these rates will soon be undercut by China. ...
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,41656,00.html

and

INDIA--A Superpower in the Making?
However, India could seek to undercut China’s manufacturing prices (as China did with many Southeast Asian countries in the 1990s). ...
http://www.realtruth.org/434-iasitm.html

 

Wiki

 

http://www.iht.com/articles/2000/04/10/edbrahma.t.php

Theater and national missile defense will undercut China's deterrent posture. Beijing has only two dozen long-range missiles that can reach the United States. The rest of its 500-weapon nuclear arsenal consists of shorter-range systems of consequence only to neighbors like India.
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India's modest deterrent capabilities will be gravely undermined as China enlarges and modernizes its nuclear and missile armories. The Chinese-Indian asymmetry will increase to the extent that New Delhi will be have to respond by diverting more of its scarce resources to new nuclear and missile development projects. An Indian program to build intercontinental ballistic missiles will become inevitable.
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Once China begins to build more sophisticated missiles armed with decoys and other penetration aids, it will have commercial reasons to recover some of the costs by transferring to Pakistan its older nuclear and missile technologies. Beijing has repeatedly broken its assurances to halt clandestine strategic transfers to Islamabad.

 

Er, that was in 2000. 5 years after the OP article......

 

Situation hasn't changed, China hasn't stopped its missile programs, or even slowed them down.


China's Nuclear Weapon Development, Modernization and Testing
... modernize their nuclear arsenal including the recent development of miniaturized warheads for China's new road-mobile, solid-fueled missile. ...
http://www.nti.org/db/china/wnwmdat.htm

India Eyes ICBMs After Testing China-Specific Missile
New Delhi (AFP) April 15, 2007 - Buoyed by the successful test of a missile that can hit China, India says it can extend its nuclear range beyond Asia, ...
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/India_Eyes_ICBMs_After_Testing_China_Specific_Missile_999.html

 

What, you reckon they want to annihilate each other??

I would have thought India was more wary of Pakistan.

 

More like making sure there is mutual respect.

 

35 percent of the worlds population live in these two countries, just glad they are getting along with each other.

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India should join the Shanghai Cooperative.

And so should Iran.

 

Yes, but what I see in this treaty is the same thing as in 1939, when the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed by Russia and Germany, just a breathing space before the main event begins.

 

Welcome to my parlor said the spider to the fly.

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

 

They've done the logical thing, simply because the U.S's influence has waned.

 

You wish.

 

Yes, I think it is an excellent idea to collaborate since these countries have a history of collaboration for many years, Russia with India since Nehru and China since maybe Hsuan Tsang.

Plus collaborating means that they can work together, with such large populations the needs of the future must be met in a way that is beneficial to all.

It also adds power to Indian influence to have these two standing with it.