India, China to resume joint military exercises

By artappraiser on Tue, 09/04/2012 - 7:30pm |

By Pratap Chakravarty, Agence France Presse, September 3, 2012

NEW DELHI — India and China announced Tuesday they would resume joint military exercises after a four-year gap, a move designed to build trust in the often prickly relationship between the world's two most populous nations.

After Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony hosted talks with his Chinese counterpart Liang Guanglie, the men told reporters they had debated some of the main sources of friction between the two sides and agreed a series of measures.

"We have decided that (to restart military exercises)," Antony told reporters following his meeting with Liang, the first Chinese defence minister to visit the Indian capital in eight years.

"We covered a lot about the situation in the South Asia, Asia-Pacific region [....]

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