Obama says he’ll visit China in November, says he’s committed to cooperative relationship

October 6th, 2009 KATHMANDU - As US President Barack Obama put off meeting the Dalai Lama till his own first official visit to China next month in a bid to improve Sino-American ties, the exiled Tibetan leader's office glossed over the postponement, saying there was no question of Obama not meeting him. "From the outset, there has been no question of President Obama not at the appropriate time meeting His Holiness, whom he holds in great esteem," a press statement issued by the Dalai Lama's Special Envoy Gyaltsen Gyari said.

October 6th, 2009 White House: Delay of Dalai Lama meeting mutualWASHINGTON — The White House says the decision to delay a meeting between President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama was mutual. The Tibetan spiritual leader is in Washington to receive an award, but won't meet with the president.

September 22nd, 2009 NEW YORK - US President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao have pledged to work closely to strengthen ties between the two countries. The two leaders met Tuesday at the Waldorf Astoria hotel on the sidelines of the climate change summit organised by the UN in the General Assembly in New York.

September 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US Wednesday said its relationship with India was undergoing "seismic changes" and will get a major boost during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit in November. Washington also asked Pakistan to prosecute those responsible for the Mumbai terror attacks and stop infiltration of militants into India to rebuild confidence with New Delhi.

September 8th, 2009 SYDNEY - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will visit New Delhi later this year, a minister said Tuesday, adding that there is a "desire on the part of both India and Australia to strengthen and broaden the relationship". Despite some "irritants", Australia and India are embracing a closer relationship that will be cemented when Rudd visits the sub-continent later this year, The Age website reported Tuesday.

September 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari seems to share a special relationship with China, as he receives an extra ordinary welcome in Beijing that no other leader of any state enjoys during his visit to the communist country. During his recent China visit, Zardari received an unprecedented protocol and Beijing also acknowledged that no head of state is ever given such a protocol if he is on a working visit to cities other than Beijing.

August 22nd, 2009 Obama to visit China in NovemberBEIJING — President Barack Obama will visit China for the first time in November, the new U.S. ambassador said Saturday, a day after he arrived in the country.

August 22nd, 2009 BEIJING - US President Barack Obama will visit China in mid-November, the US ambassador here announced Saturday. "Much is happening in US-China relations this year.

July 27th, 2009 Obama: US-China relations will shape 21st centuryWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says the U.S.-China relationship will mold the 21st century. The president spoke Monday morning to the opening session of two days of critical talks with top Beijing leaders on issues ranging from the troubled world economy to climate change and nuclear proliferation.

July 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's just concluded visit to India has resulted in significant expansion of the bilateral and multilateral relationship between the two nations, according to a senior US official. "What you are seeing in terms of the agenda is a very significant expansion of the relationship and the issues that will be subject to our bilateral and multilateral relationships going forward," Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Philip J.

June 26th, 2009 BEIJING - In a step further to embolden their military relationship, Chinese Defence Minister, Liang Guanglie met Chief of Staff of the Pakistan Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman, here on Friday. Guanglie met Air Chief Marshal Suleman, who is currently on a visit to China, and vowed to further strengthen friendship between both countries.

June 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday declared that the Obama administration was "clearly committed to furthering and deepening relationship with India in every way possible". Setting at rest speculation that unlike the previous Bush administration, President Barack Obama was ignoring New Delhi, she said both Obama and she herself were committed to build stronger ties with India.

May 31st, 2009 Geithner says US wants closer ties with ChinaBEIJING — U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says he wants to develop the same kind of close working relationship with China that the U.S.

April 24th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - State Cooperation Minister G. Sudhakaran Friday said the total deposits in the 1,614 cooperative banks in Kerala would keep increasing despite the slowdown and touch Rs.50,000 crore by November.

April 7th, 2009 BAGHDAD - US President Barack Obama landed in Baghdad Tuesday, beginning a previously unannounced visit at the end of his eight-day European tour. Obama, who departed from Istanbul where he made an appeal for a new US relationship with the Muslim world, is to visit US troops and speak by telephone with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.