Politics this week
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India’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, went to Beijing to discuss matters of trade and border defence. In April a contingent of Chinese troops had set back relations between India and China by taking up positions on the Indian side of a disputed boundary. Mr Singh hoped also to alleviate what he called an “unsustainable” trade deficit with China, which ran to $39 billion in 2012. See article
This article appeared in the The world this week section of the print edition under the headline “Politics this week”
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