The Newshour Debate: India-US-China equation - Part 2 of 2
- 12 years ago
In a debate moderated by TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, panelists -- Chidanand Rajghatta, Foreign Editor, Times of India; Mahroof Raza, Strategic Affairs Analyst; Raymond Vickery, Former Assistant Secy of Commerce, USA, and Andrew K P Leung, International and Independent China specialist -- discuss the issue of the India-US-China equation with Barack Obama coming back for 2nd term as US President.
Barack Obama on Wed (Nov 7) won a historic election to get a 2nd term as US President, overcoming a stiff challenge from Republican Mitt Romney, defying concerns over his handling of economy and anxiety over the future. A votary of strong ties with India, Obama scored what turned out to be a comfortable victory over Romney after a bitter campaign with his rivals attacking him on issues of unemployment and recession. Disproving predictions of a narrow victory in a very tight race, the incumbent won the election in crucial battleground states after a neck-and-neck race in the initial stages, getting 303 electoral votes against 206 of Romney in a college of 535 votes. Notwithstanding doubts over his ability to revive economy from the effects of the crisis, the worst after the Great Depression of 1930s, voters appeared to have chosen status quo leaving Democrats with control of the Senate and Republicans the House of Representatives. Obama walked away with wins in the swing states of Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Michigan, California and Ohio. Obama said they battled fiercely only because of their love for the country and promised to work with his Republican rival to take the debt-ridden nation forward.
China cautiously welcomed Barrack Obama's re-election, hoping the US president would follow a "positive China policy" to build "new type of relations" and to manage differences and achieve win-win cooperation. While outgoing leaders, President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao greeted Obama on his re-election, Xi Jinping, who is expected to take over the leadership from Hu after the 18th Communist Party Congress beginning in Beijing tomorrow (Nov 8) greeted US Vice-President Joe Biden. In his message, Hu noted that past four years through the concerted efforts China US relations has made positive progress. The Spokesman of the Communist Party Congress, Cai Mingzhao, spoke of the need of the US to following a "positive China policy" to firm up the bilateral ties. Sino-US relation is one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world. Sustained and steady development of relations conforms to the fundamental interest of the two countries and bring peace and prosperity to Asia Pacific region and the world, he said. Meanwhile, state-run Xinhua news agency in a commentary on Obama's re-election said the US followed an "antiquated attitude in which an emerging player is considered as a threat to established ones and should be suppressed."
Barack Obama on Wed (Nov 7) won a historic election to get a 2nd term as US President, overcoming a stiff challenge from Republican Mitt Romney, defying concerns over his handling of economy and anxiety over the future. A votary of strong ties with India, Obama scored what turned out to be a comfortable victory over Romney after a bitter campaign with his rivals attacking him on issues of unemployment and recession. Disproving predictions of a narrow victory in a very tight race, the incumbent won the election in crucial battleground states after a neck-and-neck race in the initial stages, getting 303 electoral votes against 206 of Romney in a college of 535 votes. Notwithstanding doubts over his ability to revive economy from the effects of the crisis, the worst after the Great Depression of 1930s, voters appeared to have chosen status quo leaving Democrats with control of the Senate and Republicans the House of Representatives. Obama walked away with wins in the swing states of Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Michigan, California and Ohio. Obama said they battled fiercely only because of their love for the country and promised to work with his Republican rival to take the debt-ridden nation forward.
China cautiously welcomed Barrack Obama's re-election, hoping the US president would follow a "positive China policy" to build "new type of relations" and to manage differences and achieve win-win cooperation. While outgoing leaders, President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao greeted Obama on his re-election, Xi Jinping, who is expected to take over the leadership from Hu after the 18th Communist Party Congress beginning in Beijing tomorrow (Nov 8) greeted US Vice-President Joe Biden. In his message, Hu noted that past four years through the concerted efforts China US relations has made positive progress. The Spokesman of the Communist Party Congress, Cai Mingzhao, spoke of the need of the US to following a "positive China policy" to firm up the bilateral ties. Sino-US relation is one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world. Sustained and steady development of relations conforms to the fundamental interest of the two countries and bring peace and prosperity to Asia Pacific region and the world, he said. Meanwhile, state-run Xinhua news agency in a commentary on Obama's re-election said the US followed an "antiquated attitude in which an emerging player is considered as a threat to established ones and should be suppressed."