Beijing: China and India pledged on Monday to deepen military exchanges during a visit by Indian Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the latest sign of warming relations between the neighbours and one-time foes.
China's Defence Minister Cao Guangchuan said China supported greater cooperation with India, the official Xinhua news agency reported, following talks between the two.
It did not give any details. The world's most populous nations, China and India fought a border war in 1962, and Delhi has been suspicious of China's traditionally close ties with its South Asian rival, Pakistan.
But last year they agreed on a roadmap to settle the dispute over their 3,500-km border politically and relations have been warming as economic ties grow, with trade between the two more than $13 billion annually.
Since arriving in China on Sunday, Mukherjee has also met Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, who said the two sides would "push forward the all-around deeper development of the two countries' strategic and cooperative relations", in a statement on the Foreign Ministry's Web site.
Mukherjee would also meet Central Military Commission Vice-Chairman Guo Boxiong, as well as travel to Shanghai and the northwestern city of Lanzhou before leaving on Friday.
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