The Tribune 18 June 2013 Antony begins four-day China visit on July 4 Tribune News Service New Delhi, June 17 After discussing defence ties with Japan and Australia in the past three-four weeks, Defence Minister AK Antony will be heading to China on a four-day visit starting July 4. This will be first visit by an Indian Defence Minister to China since 2006, when Pranab Mukerjee had visited the northern neighbour. Antony’s visit to China comes in the backdrop of the meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his counterpart Li Keqiang on May 20 in India. The two PMs had spoken about depending cooperation including sorting out the 167-year-old dispute of demarcating the boundary between the two countries. Since Li Keqiang visited India, there have been significant changes in the past four weeks. Manmohan Singh visited Japan and the two countries announced better cooperation in defence, mining of rare earths and strategic issues including the sale of a specialised sea-plane by Japan to India. Antony also visited Australia and for the first time the two countries announced joint military exercises and deepening cooperation in defence. Comments by Simranjit Singh Mann: Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) states that it would be dangerous for THIS (Theocratic Hindu Indian State) to make military alliances with Japan and Australia as this would mean cocking a snook at China which our party certainly disapproves of since the Sikh’s inhabited territories of Rajasthan, Himachal, Punjab, Haryana, UT-Chandigarh, Jammu & Kashmir would become a nuclear battlefield if war were to breakout, leading to the total annihilation of the Sikh and Punjabi race. Australia should be careful as Sikh’s have fought and died besides the Australians in world wars I and II. Simranjit Singh Mann
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