BEIJING - China and India share extensive common interests and have a huge potential for cooperation, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Monday.Spokesperson Hua Chunying made the remarks at a routine news briefing when asked for comment on official interaction between China and India recently.Yang Jiechi, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, held talks with Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval last Friday. The two countries also held the fifth meeting of China-India Strategic Economic Dialogue in Beijing last Saturday."This year, under the guidance of the two countries' leaders, the relationship between China and India has maintained a positive momentum with close exchanges and new cooperation progress at various levels," Hua said.The two sides also held meetings on border affairs and trans-boundary river working mechanisms, Hua said, adding such dialogue fully showed that China and India shared extensive common interests and had a huge potential for cooperation."China attaches great importance to its relations with India, and stands ready to work with India to implement the major consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries," Hua said. "The two sides should accumulate more positive energy, and expand new cooperation fields to promote the healthy and stable development of bilateral relations." what are the thick rubber bracelets calledxl silicone wristbandscustom rubber braceletscustom wristbandssilicone wristbands winnipeg
ile Photo: Ma Xiaoguang, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council. [Photo/Xinhua] The Chinese mainland will expand exchanges with Taiwan if the island removes obstacles hindering cross-Straits communications, a mainland spokesman said on Wednesday after many newly elected county and city heads said they expect more cooperation with the mainland to boost their economy. Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said that with a correct understanding of the nature of cross-Straits relations, the exchanges and cooperation between counties and cities will definitely be more extensive. In Taiwan's local elections over the weekend, the Kuomintang won 15 of the 22 seats being contested, while the ruling Democratic Progressive Party landed six, with one going to an independent candidate. Ma said it was the island's Democratic Progressive Party that had erected obstacles to cross-Straits exchanges in the previous two years. We need more time to observe whether the expectations will be realized, he said. The sooner they remove the barriers, the sooner people from both sides can enjoy the benefits of cross-Straits exchanges, the spokesman added. He said the Democratic Progressive Party should conduct a deep review of what it has done, respect the strong will of the public in Taiwan to share the benefits of peaceful development, and return to the political foundation of the 1992 Consensus on the one-China policy. Newly elected Kuomintang county and city chiefs all publicly declared that they will uphold the 1992 Consensus and that they expect more cooperation with the mainland to stimulate economic development. Han Kuo-yu, the Kuomintang mayor-elect of Kaohsiung, one of Taiwan's biggest cities, said he will set up a special office to deal with cross-Straits affairs. Bao Chengke, deputy director of the cross-Straits Communication and Regional Development Institute at East China Normal University in Shanghai, said even if the island's authorities still imposed restrictions on mutual exchanges, the interaction between cities can still move forward. For those cities with correct stand like Kaohsiung, the cooperation that had stopped before will be continued and expanded now to benefit more people across the Straits, he added. Next month, a forum between Shanghai and Taipei will kick off in Taipei. A cross-Straits baseball event involving over 800 participants will be held in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. Contact the writer at [email protected]
