Current Events Summary 2.1 (China)

There have been some some interesting foreign relations in China during the month of November. On November 5th, America's Defense Secretary, Robert M. Gates, investigated China’s aggressive modernization of its armed forces and its even more aggressive expansion of the economy and its growing global role. Mr. Gates stated “China’s increasing political and economic stature calls for this country to take on a greater share of responsibility for the health and success of the international system.” On the 8th of November, Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi and her Russian counterpart Alexander Zhukov meet at the second China-Russia Business Summit to take advantage of the China-Russia chamber of commerce of machinery and electronic products. They also agreed to deepen cooperation in border regions, further encourage the enthusiasm of local governments and organize time between revitalizing China's former industrial bases in the northeast and developing Russia's Far East region.
Chinese top legislator and chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, Wu Bangguo left Moscow also during the month of November. During his visit to Russia Wu met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov. the two sides exchanged views and reached consensus on bilateral relations, exchanges of visits and international issues of common concern.Both sides expressed satisfaction over the cooperation between the parliaments in recent years and expressed the desire to improve the mechanism of cooperation between the parliaments. In the business of trade, Kazakhstan agreed to give China a share of 2,000 tons of Uranium a year in exchange for its share in a uranium-processing business. Kazatomprom signed agreements in Beijing with the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group and the China National Nuclear Corporation, who happen to be China’s largest producers of atomic energy.
China and India will hold their first joint military exercise next month. They have reiterated they were ready to take their strategic cooperative partnership to a "new level". Indian Defense Ministry spokesman, Sitanshu Kar said about 100 troops each from both the countries will take part in the military drill. A Chinese naval vessel has set off on a landmark visit to Japan. It will be the first visit to Japan by a naval vessel of communist China. The visit was agreed at a meeting in August between defense ministers of the two nations. The ministers also agreed to set up a military hot line at their talks, the first in the Japanese capital for almost 10 years.