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India Comes Calling on China

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India Comes Calling on China

India is lobbying China for support for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Don’t expect much.

Barack Obama might have been happy sprinkling pledges of US support for permanent UN Security Council membership around like confetti during his latest Asia trip, but India is also doing its own bit of lobbying to try to make it happen.

After telling India that he supported seeing the country elevated to ‘its rightful place in the world’ during his three-day visit there last weekend, Obama followed up by telling Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the sidelines of the APEC summit that Japan is a model for the kind of country that should have a place on the UNSC.

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