China hopes 'individual incidents' won't affect India ties

China today said the recent Sino-India tensions over reports of presence of Chinese troops in PoK and denial of visa to an Indian general were caused by "misunderstanding or miscommunication" and hoped that "individual" incidents would not affect overall bilateral ties.

Both countries have exchanges on all levels and all fields, foreign ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu told a media briefing, when asked whether the bilateral ties were back on track as two Indian Ministers -- Kamal Nath and Kapil Sibal -- had a series of meetings with their Chinese counterparts and other officials here during the past few days.

"Some of the issues you mentioned are due to misunderstanding or miscommunication," the spokesperson said in response to a question about tensions between the two countries over reports of presence of Chinese troops in Gilgit-Baltistan area of PoK and denial of visa to Northern Area Commander Lt Gen B S Jaswal to take part in talks here.

"From the Chinese point of view we believe that China and India are neighbours and two emerging powers. Strengthening cooperation and building mutual trust is beneficial to the two
peoples and also conducive for world peace and development,"
she said.

Actually China and India have exchanges at all levels and all fields, Jiang said. "Hope individual incidents will not affect the overall interest of development of China-India relations," she said.