"We think India and China can be great friends. Not only because we are neighbors. Not only because we're growing phenomenally even in a world slowing down. We're the only two countries growing ahead with our six percent and your nine or ten percent. This is a new Asian power. The world balance is now shifting toward this. We can be at peace with each other. We have problems. Those problems, I don't think they are unsolvable."

--- Shri Prakash Javedkar(center), spokesperson of BJP.

"The launching of Agni-V is beautiful, but comments have been ugly. None of the scientists or the head of the project have ever mentioned we are looking at China. Nothing of that sort was ever mentioned. What they said is that now we are happy to be in the club of elites who have launched long-range missiles, like the U.S, Russia and China. We don't name any country… As Premier Wen said at the opening of the cultural program and another couple of times, there is space for both countries to coexist prosperously."

-- Shri Sailas Thangal, external publicity director, Ministry of External Affairs