"...the visit provided a refreshing opportunity to engage the Chinese strategic think-tank community on a host of bilateral and regional issues. The visit is part of a project that aims to develop better understanding and greater cooperation between India and China for a more sustainable relationship that would help shape the Asian destiny over the coming years. Being a Track II process the exchanges were marked by free and candid expression of views by all participants. The main focus of the visit was to discuss confidence building measures (CBMs) in diverse fields ranging from, strategic relations, maintaining peace and stability along the borders, promoting strategic stability through CBM?s in the nuclear field, enhancing antiterrorism cooperation, promoting maritime security and facilitating media and think tank interaction. The range of CBM?s discussed reflected the desire to move beyond the clich?s of hostility and confrontation premised in the normal discourse on India-China relations to a level that promotes better understanding and more cooperative relationship..."