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By any measure, Sino-Indian relations are steadily improving.2 This has been manifested by a number of factors.
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For some good review papers on Sino-Indian relations, see Richard Weixing Hu, “India’s Nuclear Bomb and Future Sino-Indian Relations,” EastAsia 17, no.1 (Spring 1999), 40–68, and Sun Shihai, “Sino-Indian Relations toward the 21st Century,” in Asia Report 2000 (Changchun: Changchun Press, 2001, in Chinese).
Joint Statement between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of India, April 11, 2005. Article 16 stated, “[China] understands and supports India to play active role in the U.N. and international affairs.”
Joint Declaration between China and India, New Delhi, November 21, 2006. Article 17 reads, “Considering that for both India and China, expansion of civilian nuclear energy program is an essential and important component of their national energy plans to ensure energy security, the two sides agree to promote cooperation in the field of nuclear energy, consistent with their respective international commitments.” This entails revision of NSG, as its current shape doesn’t allow, even for peaceful purpose, nuclear energy cooperation between NSG members and any nonmembers of NPT (Nonproliferation Treaty).
Shen Dingli, “India’s Intention Suspect” (Cover Story), Outlook (The Weekly Magazine), India, May 21, 2001, 52
See, The Joint Communiqué of the Informal Meeting between the Foreign Ministers of People’s Republic of China, the Russian Federation and the Republic of India, June 3, 2005.
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, http://www.fmprc.gov.cnchn/wjb/zzjg/yzs/gjlb/1328/default.htm,http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/wjb/zzjg/yzs/gjlb/2711/. Accessed on February 4, 2008. China has registered trade surplus at US$0.2 B (2001), US$0.4 B (2002) and US$4.3 B (2006); and India has had trade surplus at US$0.9 B (2003), US$1.8 B (2004) and US$0.8 B (2005).
Nongovernmental estimates of India’s fissile-material stockpiles are summarized in Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium 1996: World Inventories, Capabilities and Policies, by David Albright, Frans Berkhout, and William Walker (Oxford University Press, 1997). See also David Albright and Kimberly Kramer, “Fissile material stockpiles still growing”, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December 2004, 14–16.
For a Western viewpoint, see Chapter 7 “China,” in Joseph Cirincione, Jon Wolfsthal, and Miriam Rajkumar, Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats, 2nd ed., revised and expanded (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C., 2005,), 163–188.
According to press reports, the Clinton Administration determined in August 1995 that China had sold 5,000 ring magnets valued at US$70,000 to Abdul Qadeer Khan Research Laboratory in Kahuta between December 1994 and mid-1995. This unsafeguarded gas-centrifuge facility can produce weapons-grade, highly enriched uranium. Reuters and UPI reports, February 8, 1996.
Lei Huai, “Chinese government requesting Pak cooperation”, Elite Reference (in Chinese), June 26, 2007, http://qnck.cyol.comcontent/2007–06/26/content_1805952.htm. Accessed on February 4, 2008.
Strobe Talbot, “Dealing with the Bombs in South Asia”, Foreign Affairs, March/April 1999, Vol. 78, Issue 2, 110–122.
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Dingli, S. (2008). Sino-Indian Strategic Relations. In: Twomey, C.P. (eds) Perspectives on Sino-American Strategic Nuclear Issues. Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230613164_10
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