India warns China: Do not use 'Made in India' tag for your drugs

India has lodged a strong protest with China over sale of anti-malarial generic drugs with a 'Made in India' label but produced in that country.

The Government's attention was drawn to the matter through a press release issued by the Nigerian Government Drug Regulatory Authority (NAFDAC) about detention and seizure of a large consignment of fake anti-malarial generic pharmaceuticals labelled "Made in India" but produced in China.

Taking serious note of the issue, a strong protest was lodged with concerned Chinese authorities with a request to take stringent action against such unscrupulous elements, the Rajya Sabha was informed today.

Consequent to India's protest, the Chinese government conducted an investigation and found a nexus between Chinese drug manufacturers and importers in Nigeria, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dinesh Trivedi said in reply to a written question.

After 50 years, India and China Smile, Shake Hands

After escalating tensions over border disputes rooted in the past 50 years, the world’s most populous nations finally agreed to jointly address the biggest challenge of the next 50: global warming.

India and China on Wednesday signed a wide-ranging agreement to stand together against the developed world in December’s crucial climate change negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark.

As the new bonhomie unfolded in New Delhi, officials in Beijing rushed to arrange a meeting between Premier Wen Jiabao and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Thailand later this week.

A Chinese foreign ministry official said the meeting would take place between October 23 and 25 (Reuters said Saturday). He indicated the Chinese expected the talks to help smoothen presently rocky bilateral ties.

“Prime Minister Singh is now in his second term. There has been good progress in our bilateral relationship and we hope this momentum can sustain,’’ assistant foreign minister Hu Zhengyue told mediapersons.

While Beijing stressed the meeting would be “important”, for which “both sides are in close touch”, Delhi evaded a direct reply. Asked if Singh would meet Wen during the Association of South East Asian Nations summit in Thailand, secretary (east) of the foreign ministry, N. Ravi, said: “Some bilateral meetings with leaders of participating countries are possible.” He didn’t name China.

With China the world’s worst polluter (US is second, Russia third) and India fourth, the developed world will pressure both countries to agree to emission cuts, a move both see as harmful to their economic interests.

“Trust me, only India and China can make Copenhagen succeed,” said China’s vice-chairman of National Development and Reform Commission, Xie Zhenhua.

Half the world’s 6.7 billion people live in India and China.

Zhenhua nodded in agreement when India’s environment minister Jairam Ramesh said: “There is no difference between Indian and Chinese negotiating positions and we are discussing further what the two should be doing for a successful outcome at Copenhagen.”

This is the first climate change agreement for India and China, with any country outside the purview of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which provides for funds and the transfer of clean technologies to the developing world from the developed.

Wednesday’s agreement marks the re-emergence of common ground that India and China found at the 1996 Montreal Protocol, when they first pressured rich countries to pay up to phase out chemicals that depleted the ozone layer.

India will sign similar agreements with the European Union, Norway, United States, Brazil and South Africa.

`Agni-5 can reach China`s northernmost city`

Agni-5, India's latest long-range nuclear-capable missile under development, can target China's northernmost city of Harbin, a leading Chinese newspaper has claimed amid a slew of strident anti-India articles over the status of Arunachal Pradesh.


"India's Advanced Systems Laboratory (ASL) has made its forthcoming Agni-5 missile highly road-mobile, or easily transportable by road, which would bring Harbin, China's northernmost city within striking range if the Agni-5 is moved to northeast India," the People's Daily reported.

`India has adequate military capability along Chinese border`

Harbin is the capital of China's Heilongjiang Province.

The paper, the mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party, noted that the Agni-5 which has a range of 5,000 km is similar to the Dongfeng-31A showcased during China's National Day Military Parade on October 1 in Beijing.

India is going to test-fire the missile in early 2011, the report claimed.

China gears up for 60th Anniversary

People gather at a square to celebrate the upcoming 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China during a photo call in Jilin, China. China will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its founding on October 1.

Let's break India into 20 to 30 states: Chinese Strategist

Quite contrary to the conclusion of the recent India-China border talks, a Chinese strategist asserted that India should be broken into 20 to 30 independent states with the help of the ‘friendly countries’ like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.

This was suggested in his article ‘If China takes little action the so called great Indian Federation can be broken up’, which was published on the new edition of the website of the China International Institute of Strategic studies (CIISS), an influential think tank which advices Bejing on global strategic issues.

In his article which is likely to create ripples in the masses and classes of India, the Chinese strategist Zhan Lue argues that India could only be termed a ‘Hindu religious state’ that is based on caste exploitation and which is coming in the way of modernisation.

The article recommends India's break up into many nation-states like in Europe and contends that if the consciousness of ‘nationalities’ in India could be aroused, social reforms in South Asia can be achieved, the caste system can be eradicated and the region can march towards prosperity. The author further says that with these caste cleavages in mind, China in its own interest and the progress of whole of Asia should join forces with ‘different nationalities’ like Assamese, Tamils and Kashmiris and support them in establishing independent nation states of their own.