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Describing Tibet as part of China, US President Barack Obama on Tuesday supported the early resumption of talks between Beijing and representatives of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama.

“We did note that while we recognise that Tibet is part of the People’s Republic of China, the United States supports the early resumption of dialogue” between the Dalai Lama’s representatives and Beijing,” Obama said after his meeting with Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao.

China, which has governed Tibet since its troops occupied the territory in the 1950s, has repeatedly accused the Dalai Lama of leading a campaign to split the Himalayan region from the rest of the country.

The 74-year-old Dalai Lama, who fled to India amid a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959, has denied the allegations.

The last formal talks between the Dalai Lama’s envoys and Chinese officials, the seventh since 2002, ended in an impasse in July last year, with China demanding that he prove that he did not support Tibetan independence.

Obama, who is in on his maiden state visit to the Communist nation, warned Iran that it faced “consequences” if it failed to show greater openness on its nuclear programme.

“Iran has an opportunity to present and demonstrate its peaceful intentions but if it fails to take this opportunity, there will be consequences,” he said.

The US President said he and Hu want climate change talks in Copenhagen next month to result in a global deal that has “immediate operational effect.”

We “agreed to work toward a successful outcome in Copenhagen,” Obama told reporters.

“Our aim there is… not a partial accord or a political declaration, but rather an accord that covers all the issues in the negotiations and one that has immediate operational effect,” he said.

On North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme, Obama said the six-party talks process should resume “as soon as possible”.

“We agreed on resuming the six-party talks process as soon as possible,” Obama said.

On his part, Hu said that both sides were “committed to dialogue and consultation in resolving the Korean peninsula nuclear issue.”

Hu said that the two countries “will continue to have consultations on an equal footing to properly resolve economic and trade frictions.”

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Beijing, Nov 3 (IANS) China Tuesday for the first time accused the Dalai Lama of trying to “wreck” Sino-Indian ties after calling his planned visit to Arunachal Pradesh a “separatist” activity.

The Dalai Lama is scheduled to visit the northeastern Indian state, a part of which Beijing claims, next week. China has repeatedly criticised the trip and asked India to foil it.

Foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu Tuesday flayed the Dalai Lama for his “separatist” activities, media reports said.

Ma said: “The Dalai Lama often lies and often engages in acts to sabotage China’s relations with other countries.”

He told a news briefing: “I am confident that his scheme to wreck China’s relations with the relevant country will come to nothing.”

Ma went on to say that last month Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh had agreed to focus on promoting “healthy and stable relations”.

“We hope that each side will continue striving to make strides in that direction,” Ma was quoted as saying.

Wen and Manmohan Singh met for formal talks on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in the Thai resort of Hua Hin. They discussed the Dalai Lama at night during a dinner hosted by the Thai prime minister.

Kolkata: A top army official said tonight, there was no escalation of military strength at the Chinese side along the international border in Arunachal Pradesh.

“It’s a political issue, with no military connotation,” Lieutenant General V K Singh, the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Eastern Command, said about the border issue with China, on the sidelines of a CII programme on defence-industry cooperation.

His comments came in the wake of China today expressing “strong” dissatisfaction over Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh about ten days ago for electioneering.

Talking about local reports that there were army movements along the Sino-Indian border in the North East, he said border crisis was nothing but “a perception.”

“Even if five army vehicles move towards the border, locals will say army is being brought in. It’s just a matter of perception,” Singh said.

With India and China growing fast in the travel industry, Bruce Buchanan, head of the low-cost Australian airline Jetstar, said that the airline is eying route-related opportunities in China and India.

Buchanan said, “Asia will be the largest market over the next 15 years, it will surpass Europe and North America. It’s the fastest growing travel market. I think China and India are very exciting markets.”

He also added that as more annual household incomes in China and India passed 10,000 dollars, holiday travel would increase dramatically in those countries.

“There’s a massive opportunity to get a lot more capacity in those regions, and we know there’s a latent demand, because whenever we’ve gone into those markets and deployed Jetstar capacity, we’ve seen a strong uptake,” Buchanan said.

Jetstar is owned by Qantas Airways Ltd.

New Delhi: Air Chief Marshal P V Naik said here today that the IAF is upgrading six airstrips in Arunachal Pradesh bordering China to improve its capabilities to move troops there quickly.

The IAF has opened the Daulat Beig Oldi, Fukche and Nyoma ALGs in Ladakh since May last year. Among the new ALGs in Arunachal Pradesh to be upgraded are Along, Walong and Machuka.

Naik said these airstrips, called Advanced Landing Grounds (ALGs), would be to augment the IAF’s air maintenance in the border state on the pattern of the three new ALGs.

These were made operational in Ladakh region in Jammu and Kashmir and in the western region bordering Pakistan in the last two years.

Beijing: China is celebrating 60 years of Communist rule. China’s current leader, Hu Jintao, wore what has come to be called a Mao suit. His colleagues, and past leaders, all dressed in Western suits.

China has showcased its military capabilities, as well as its economic and social progress, in a huge parade to mark the 60th anniversary of the Communist state.

President Hu stood in an open-topped Red Flag limousine to review the troops. Then, he stood in the same place as Mao on the Tiananmen Gate, to pay tribute to all the achievements that brought China to where it is today.

Mr. Hu says “long live the great People’s Republic of China, the great Chinese Communist Party and the great Chinese people.”

Kolkata: Huawei has today announced its plans to launch a 56Mb/s HSPA+ (High Speed Packet Access Plus) commercial solution in 2010. Huawei’s latest solution will enable operators to offer download speeds that are double what is available today.

The 56Mb/s HSPA+ solution, featuring multi-carrier and MIMO (multiple-input-multiple-output) technologies, was successfully demonstrated in Beijing this week at P&T/Wireless & Networks Comm China 2009.

“Advances in mobile broadband, particularly record breaking data speeds and capacity of HSPA networks, have had a profound impact on the telecom industry and demonstrate the enormous potential of UMTS/HSPA,” said Wan Biao, President of Wireless, Huawei. “This 56Mb/s HSPA+ solution will enable operators to maintain their industry leading positions and provide consumers with an evermore attractive mobile broadband experience.”

This industry-leading solution allows operators currently using Huawei’s fourth generation and 38xx series base stations to smoothly evolve their legacy networks to 56Mb/s HSPA+ networks via software upgrades alone, and deploy leading edge networks at significant cost savings that ultimately protect their long term investment.

As a leading provider of end-to-end mobile broadband solutions, Huawei has deployed over 10 commercial HSPA+ network contracts, as of August 2009.

In Asia Pacific, Huawei has deployed a commercial 28Mb/s HSPA+ network, and, along with leading operators including Japan EMOBILE, Singapore StarHub, Vodafone Turkey and Hong Kong PCCW, Huawei has launched five commercial HSPA+ networks which support downlink speeds of up to 21Mb/s.

Guwahati: Those living in Arunachal Pradesh close to the border with China continue to live in fear of a possible incursion from the north.

A woman at Arunachal’s Chaglagam village says, “The Chinese army might come here. The village is so close to China, our biggest threat is from them.”

The Hindi-Chini bhai bhai slogan was shattered by the 1962 war and four decades after that incident the neighbours may once again be shaking hands for the cameras.

But in Arunachal Pradesh, close to the Sino-Indian border, villagers live in perpetual fear of Chinese incursion.

Both countries deny incursions that reportedly happened recently in Leh but the news seems to have had an effect in Arunachal, portions of which China claims as its own territory.

Beijing: Chinese officials said on Tuesday that the first batch of people to receive vaccinations against the new swine flu has reported no serious side effects.

The vaccinations were done on a group of students in the country.
China began a mass vaccination programme on Monday, with around 100,000 students in Beijing due to be given the shots initially.

State media said they are the first large group of people anywhere in the world to get vaccinated. China’s Sinovac reported earlier this month that its vaccine protected patients with a single dose.

A WHO expert meanwhile said he was convinced China’s vaccine against the new H1N1 virus had been through proper tests.

Chen said China aimed to produce 26 million doses of the vaccine by end-October and 65 million doses by year-end.

New Delhi: Though, there are reports of Chinese incursions at the Indian boarders but Indian government seems not to be in hurry in this issue.

Just three weeks ago, there were reports that the Chinese had ventured as far as the Pangong Lake in Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir.

According to reports.. Chinese military helicopters had air dropped food packets in the region.

Locals in Ladakh region say that many nomads, including shepherds, who move around in the border area, did inform authorities about Chinese activities taking places near the Line of Actual Control (LAC). But the concerned officials and the government turned a deaf ear.

According to the recent reports, India downplayed reports of Chinese incursions, stoutly maintaining that the situation was not alarming.

But Ladakhi shepherds have criticised what they call the government’s indifference to the reported Chinese incursion.