Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet Chinese Premier Wen Jiab-ao in Hanoi on Friday ahead of the East Asia Summit, and sources say the meeting will be used to convey India’s concern over the growing trade deficit in India’s favour — a direct fallout of the devaluation of the Chinese yuan. Questi-ons remain on whether he will gloss over the niggling “stapled” visas issue.
There is intense speculation whether Dr Singh will have a one-on-one meeting with US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, who is atte-nding the Hanoi summit.