Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting in Tashkent on Thursday. China’s great wall appeared to be crumbling before Indian diplomacy on Thursday. Beijing was left isolated as every other government of the 48-member Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) spoke at the opening of the Seoul plenary in favour of accepting India into the elite international nuclear technology club. At the end of the first tense session of... 

Xi and Modi to meet in Tashkent. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping set to meet in Tashkent on Thursday afternoon, the US and France are leaning on the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) members to arrive at a “positive decision”. The expert-level sessions in Seoul over the last two days are learnt to have discussed the membership issue before the two-day plenary session beginning on Thursday. It is learnt... 

NEW DELHI: China has said that India’s admission to the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group (NSG) is not on the agenda of the grouping as it meets this week in Seoul. China has been opposted to India’s membership to the Nuclear Suppliers Group. The statement is being seen as a rebuff to India’s effort to join the NSG, especially a day after Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said India’s entry is just a matter of procedure. China... 

Delhi: Chinese media said on Thursday that China could support India’s bid to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) if it promises to comply with non-proliferation rules. An opinion piece in the nationalistic ‘Global Times’ said that the “reason why India has scored a big win in garnering support for its NSG membership from some countries is because Washington has started to treat New Delhi as part of the US alliance…...