So beguilingly calm were matters all this while that environment minister Jairam Ramesh even claimed, somewhat fancifully in May, that the âChindian' cooperation he forged at the Copenhagen climate change conference last year had fortified the two countries' âstrategic" relationship. It now appears that the thin ice on which that exaggerated claim rested has melted away in the heat of a cruel summer. Read the full report here.
Source: by Venkatesan Vembu, DNA, Mumbai.