'China poses no threat to India'

BEIJING, AUG. 7. China's fast paced rise does not pose a threat to India and the two neighbouring nations should enhance bilateral ties and cooperate with each other for mutual benefit, the former Prime Minister, Mr. H.D. Deve Gowda, said here today.

``The question of any threat does not arise as they are equally anxious to warm up relations with India,'' Mr. Gowda told PTI when asked to comment on the so-called ``China threat'' theory often touted in India as well as in the West.

Mr. Gowda said his first visit to China has convinced him that the Chinese Government was mainly concentrating on economic development and how to improve the life of 1.3 billion of their people.

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