"I recognise that India is stridently emerging as a global power, aided by robust economic growth, and that it has become a major country essential for peace, stability and prosperity of Asia and beyond," Koizumi was quoted as saying in The Hindu newspaper.
"China reiterates that we attach great importance to the important role of India in the international affairs. India is a very populous, developing country and is also very important developing country," said Jiabao.
"With my visit to India, it is my intention to reinforce our relationship ... with a new strategic orientation in a new Asian era, to take our partnership to a new height of regional and global significance," Koizumi said."China attaches great importance to developing good neighbourly relations and friendly co-operation with India" Jiabao said.
see a trend? the japanese prime minister followed close on the footsteps of the chinese premier to india - they both said the same things - only china had that border issue with india that japan did not have.
both the japanese and the chinese said almost verbatim - Business is the most important part of our relationship. china has that relationship, japan wants it. wonder who's going to get it. inspite of our many problems with china, we have 14 bn dollars trade with them and barely 4 bn with japan with whom we have pretty much no history at all, good or bad. its a weird world of business.
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