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NEW DELHI (AP) - India and China agreed April 11 to form a "strategic partnership," creating a diplomatic bond between Asia's two emerging powers that would tie together nearly one-third of the world's population.

The agreement, announced during a South Asia tour by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, reflects a major shift in relations between the two nuclear countries, whose ties have long been defined by mutual suspicion.

China and India, which fought a brief war in 1962 over border disagreements, sealed their agreement with a set of accords aimed at boosting economic ties and ending one long-standing border dispute. Under the agreement, China has recognized the Himalayan territory of Sikkim as a part of India.

The partnership is another step in a charm offensive by Beijing, which is trying to build ties with its neighbors and ensure regional stability for economic growth.

Nevertheless, Wen's visit coincided with a major rise in tensions between China and Japan, with violent anti-Japanese protests in China in part over a Japanese history textbook, which allegedly whitewashes its wartime record.

印中首脳、協力関係で合意

インドと中国の首脳会談が11日、インドで行なわれ、両国が戦略的な協力関係を築いていくことで合意した。　

Shukan ST: April 19, 2005

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