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China defence chief to visit SE Asia
2001-02-02
BEIJING, Feb 2 - Chinese Defence Minister Chi Haotian will visit Cambodia, Laos, Nepal and Vietnam next week, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday. It quoted the Chinese Defence Ministry as saying Chi would depart on Monday for a goodwill visit to the four countries, all of which, except for Cambodia, share borders with China. Chi would meet counterparts Tea Banh and Prince Sisowath Sereyrath of Cambodia, Choummali Sayasone of Laos, Mahesh Acharya of Nepal, and Pham Van Tra of Vietnam, the report said. Chi's trip to Cambodia and Laos follows a visit to the two Southeast Asian states last November by Chinese President Jiang Zemin. In December, Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong paid a five-day visit to China and settled a long-standing border dispute that both sides praised as evidence of warmth between the countries, which fought a brief but bloody border war in 1979. The visit to Nepal, strategically placed between China and its great regional rival India, comes as feeling against India has run high in the Himalayan kingdom during recent months. This anti-Indian feeling has prompted leading Indian analysts to warn of the dangers of a possible creeping Chinese influence there.
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