KUALA LUMPUR: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday there were “enormous possibilities” to work with China, playing down simmering tensions between the giant Asian neighbours.

“Are India and China in competition? I sincerely believe that there are enornmous possibilities of our two countries to work together,” Singh told a gathering of business leaders in Malaysia’s administrative capital, Putrajaya. “I look upon the world as a large enough place to accommodate the growth and ambitions of both India and China and it is in that sense that we approach India-China relations,” he said.—AFP

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