Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin shakes hand with Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh prior to their fifth high-level strategic dialogue in New Delhi on Tuesday. Photo: The Hindu

The 5th round of the India-China Strategic Dialogue was held on Tuesday in New Delhi by Indian Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin. During the 4-hour meeting, the two delegations discussed bilateral, regional, and global issues, and exchanged ideas for improving trade relations, reducing the Indian trade deficit, and boosting cultural cooperation, people-to-people exchanges and the expansion of scientific and technological cooperation. The two sides discussed the use of ways trans-border river waters, and ways to maintain peace along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), and planned for the China visit by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by the end of this year.