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China praises Modi's letter to XI on coronavirus assistance

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Published : Feb 10, 2020, 5:19 PM IST

Beijing has appreciated New Delhi's support for China's fight against the deadly coronavirus. In a letter to Xi Jinping, Modi had offered India's assistance to China to face the challenge, besides conveying condolences over the loss of lives.

Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping
Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping

Beijing: China on Monday appreciated Prime Minister Narendra Modi's letter to President Xi Jinping offering solidarity and assistance to deal with the deadly coronavirus outbreak, saying it "fully demonstrated" New Delhi's friendship with Beijing.

In a letter to Xi, Modi expressed solidarity with the president and Chinese people over the coronavirus outbreak that has claimed over 900 lives in the neighbouring country.

Read also: Had offered to bring back Pakistani citizens as well from Wuhan: Jaishankar

"We thank and appreciate India's support for China's fight against the novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP)," Chinese foreign ministry's spokesman Geng Shuang said.

"India's acts of goodwill fully demonstrate its friendship with China," Geng said during an online media briefing while replying to a question on Modi's letter to Xi.

Read also: New quarantine rules at Hong Kong-China border

Modi also offered New Delhi's assistance to China to face the challenge, besides conveying condolences over the loss of lives due to the outbreak.

The prime minister also conveyed to Xi his appreciation for facilitating the evacuation of around 650 Indian citizens from the worst-affected Hubei province last week.

A sizeable number of countries have evacuated their citizens from China and restricted movement of people and goods to and from the Asian giant.

New Delhi too has put restrictions on the movement of people to and from China as part of precautionary measures to contain the spread of the virus.

"We stand ready to work with India and other members of the international community to jointly tackle fight the epidemic and safeguard regional and global public health security," Geng said.

Indian Ambassador to China Vikram Misri on Monday said that New Delhi was in touch with Chinese officials to find out the immediate requirements to deal with the epidemic.

The death toll in China's coronavirus outbreak has gone up to 908 with 97 new fatalities reported mostly in the worst-affected Hubei province and the confirmed cases of infection crossing 40,000, Chinese health officials said on Monday.

A team of international experts led by the World Health Organisation (WHO) would arrive in China on Monday night to assist the Chinese health officials to contain the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.

"I've just been at the airport seeing off members of an advance team for the @WHO-led 2019nCoV international expert mission to China, led by Dr Bruce Aylward, a veteran of past public health emergencies," WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a tweet.

  • I’ve just been at the airport seeing off members of an advance team for the @WHO-led #2019nCoV international expert mission to #China, led by Dr Bruce Aylward, veteran of past public health emergencies.

    — Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) February 9, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data=" ">

With inputs from PTI

Beijing: China on Monday appreciated Prime Minister Narendra Modi's letter to President Xi Jinping offering solidarity and assistance to deal with the deadly coronavirus outbreak, saying it "fully demonstrated" New Delhi's friendship with Beijing.

In a letter to Xi, Modi expressed solidarity with the president and Chinese people over the coronavirus outbreak that has claimed over 900 lives in the neighbouring country.

Read also: Had offered to bring back Pakistani citizens as well from Wuhan: Jaishankar

"We thank and appreciate India's support for China's fight against the novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP)," Chinese foreign ministry's spokesman Geng Shuang said.

"India's acts of goodwill fully demonstrate its friendship with China," Geng said during an online media briefing while replying to a question on Modi's letter to Xi.

Read also: New quarantine rules at Hong Kong-China border

Modi also offered New Delhi's assistance to China to face the challenge, besides conveying condolences over the loss of lives due to the outbreak.

The prime minister also conveyed to Xi his appreciation for facilitating the evacuation of around 650 Indian citizens from the worst-affected Hubei province last week.

A sizeable number of countries have evacuated their citizens from China and restricted movement of people and goods to and from the Asian giant.

New Delhi too has put restrictions on the movement of people to and from China as part of precautionary measures to contain the spread of the virus.

"We stand ready to work with India and other members of the international community to jointly tackle fight the epidemic and safeguard regional and global public health security," Geng said.

Indian Ambassador to China Vikram Misri on Monday said that New Delhi was in touch with Chinese officials to find out the immediate requirements to deal with the epidemic.

The death toll in China's coronavirus outbreak has gone up to 908 with 97 new fatalities reported mostly in the worst-affected Hubei province and the confirmed cases of infection crossing 40,000, Chinese health officials said on Monday.

A team of international experts led by the World Health Organisation (WHO) would arrive in China on Monday night to assist the Chinese health officials to contain the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.

"I've just been at the airport seeing off members of an advance team for the @WHO-led 2019nCoV international expert mission to China, led by Dr Bruce Aylward, a veteran of past public health emergencies," WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a tweet.

  • I’ve just been at the airport seeing off members of an advance team for the @WHO-led #2019nCoV international expert mission to #China, led by Dr Bruce Aylward, veteran of past public health emergencies.

    — Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) February 9, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data=" ">

With inputs from PTI

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Momentum of India-US trade moving in favour of America: Mukesh Aghi
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         Washington, Feb 10 (PTI) The momentum of the bilateral trade between India and the US is moving in favour of Washington, mainly due to the sudden increase in energy import by New Delhi, the head of a top India-centric American trade and strategic advocacy group has said.
          Noting that the India-US trade has gone up from USD 142 billion in 2018 to USD 160 in 2019, President of US India Strategic and Partnership Forum (USISPF) Mukesh Aghi said that the energy import by India from the US had shot up dramatically.
          "If you look at three years ago, it was almost zero. Now as of last year's cross USD 6 billion, and we expect this to cost USD 10 billion this fiscal year. So, the momentum is moving in favour of US," Aghi told PTI.
          He said the bilateral trade numbers were going up without the trade deal and when the big ticket items such as Boeing planes were not being delivered.
          India's private air carrier Spice Jet has placed an order for 200 planes to Boeing. As such, the trade numbers would go up significantly, once the delivery of the planes kicks in motion.
          Aghi said that even after the US withdrew India's GSP privileges, the export in that sector had not slowed down.
          "In fact, that is up another five per cent," he said.
          The momentum on the bilateral trade continues even as a trade deal between the two countries is still being negotiated. There are a few issues that need to be sorted out, he said, hoping that there will be more mature response from both sides as time goes by.
          "You will have differences. But at the same time, I think we'll find a solution. I don't think there are very many open issues. It's just matters of trying to cross the T's and make sure the dots are in the right places so you can move forward," he said.
          From the US export environment, Aghi said the energy sector - ranging from gas, LNG, and even high-quality coal - was taking the lead in the India-US bilateral trade.
          "From the US side, scientific products, energy, planes, and defence, will keep on fuelling the growth," he said.
          "From Indian side, you will definitely see low-end stuff like jewelry and leather and other garments coming into the US. But we also see services, especially the IT services. They will cut you to grow regardless of what H-1B, the demand for that, those services is at the moment fuelling quite a bit. And that's fuelling is coming because of the growth of the economy also," he said.
          Aghi asserted that American companies continued to be bullish on India and will continue with their investment in the country.
          They are showing a substantial growth on the current base itself and are also gaining the market share, he added.
          However, Aghi said the American companies continue to be challenged by ease of doing business environment in India, in particular at the State level.
          While there has been market improvement in the World Bank's ranking in ease of doing business, which is basically based on parameters in major cities like Mumbai and New Delhi, companies continue to require a number of permits for opening their businesses in States, where the manufacturing is going to be set up.
          "The other big issue is a transparent and predictable policy. That's important to have. Because classic example is people are saying, we invested in Andhra Pradesh, a change of government, reversed everything. So today, a lot of companies which are invested are struggling with the change in policy.
          If you have a contract, those contracts have to be honoured regardless of change of the government. To me, that's very critical, if you're going to bring that strong sentiment of confidence among US companies to come invest in India," Aghi said.
          The court system has to play a much more "efficient and effective role" and there has to be "maturity on part of politicians" that you attracted a strong investment and you can't overturn because of political reasons, he said.
          "Yes, if there's some bribery or some other issues then we absolutely agree with that. But if a company has gone through a proper transparent process, then to reverse that sends a wrong message," Aghi said. PTI LKJ
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