Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, second right, talks with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Peng Sun, Pool)
BEIJING (AP) — China and India have signed a confidence-building measure to cooperate on border defense following a standoff between armed forces of the two Asian giants in disputed territory earlier this year.
The agreement followed a meeting in Beijing between visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.
Li said that Wednesday’s meeting will “inject new momentum and vitality into the China-India relationship.”
Relations between the nations are overshadowed by a half-century-old border dispute over which they fought a brief but bloody war in 1962. More than a dozen rounds of talks have failed to resolve the issue, and the two sides had a three-week standoff at their frontier earlier this year.
