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    180 : Wen Jiabao in India: Mission Business

    Amitendu Palit, Head (Development & Programmes) and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the ISAS

    20 December 2010

    The Chinese Premier's recent visit to India emphasised on developing closer business ties with India in different areas. Several agreements were signed, including in banking and finance and green technologies. The paper argues that despite both countries deciding to increase bilateral trade and addressing the current imbalance, the latter might persist due to low competitiveness of Indian exports in the Chinese market and the Indian industry's inability to compete with Chinese imports.