Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani will leave for China today (Tuesday) to hold talks with Chinese leadership on important bilateral and regional issues. During his visit to China, the premier would meet Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao to exchange views and promote practical cooperation across the border as well as other issues of common interest. Gilani will start his visit from Shanghai where he is scheduled to address first moot of world cultural farms, aimed at holding dialogue and cooperation for international harmony and common development. During his stay in Beijing, the PM will also ink agreements on trade, economics, finance and culture.
He will also address students in Beijing University, besides meeting Chinese business tycoon. Gilani’s visit is being billed significant as it comes at a time when a Pakistan is locked in a tense stand off with its long time ally, the USA. “The visit assumes added significance in view of the ongoing developments in the region,” Rong Ying, Senior Research Fellow at the state-run Chinese Institute of Strategic Studies said, referring to the US-Pakistan tensions in the aftermath of bin Laden’s killing by US troops.China-Pakistan relationship is important and significant from its own perspective and history, he said.
