'Friendly' China wants to resolve border issue

Can we really trust China's paw of friendship and good intent, given it's long history of subterfuge?

Today, Chinaproposed to "advance" the negotiation process with India on resolving the boundary issue in view of the prevailing "good atmosphere", even as it played down any impact of a sharp hike in its defence budget on bilateral ties saying it poses no threat to any country.

The Special Representative mechanism (created when Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao came down last year) by both the countries to resolve the boundary issue has brought about "some momentum" to bilateral efforts to resolve the problem, China's national legislature representative said.

He also said, "At present there were friendly and stable relations between China and India."