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India, China in new talks to solve border dispute NEW DELHI, Thursday (Reuters) India and China began a first round of talks on Thursday to seek a solution to a decades-old border dispute that has bedevilled ties between the world's two most populous nations. The nuclear-armed neighbours have been negotiating since 1998 to map exactly where their 3,500-km (2,170-mile) border lies, but with little success. New Delhi and Beijing agreed to talks between their political envoys when Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee visited China in June - the first by an Indian prime minister in a decade - in a new push to The day-long talks between Indian National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra and China's Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo in New Delhi are the product of that meeting. |
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