Modi steers China ties away from troubled waters

April 25, 2016 16:39

The government has done just the right thing to review the decision to grant visa to an Uighur activist whom China has branded a 'terrorist'. Had it been otherwise, there would have been serious negative fallouts on the relationship with China. (Indian Express).

All one can say at this point (before more details are known) would be that there has been a political decision, conceivably at the highest level, to supersede the foreign and security policy establishment's earlier move to issue an 'electronic visa' to the Uighur fugitive Dolkun Isa, living in exile in Germany.

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