New Delhi, Jan. 7 -- After finally saying goodbye to 2025, we should acknowledge some important events for the people of India and China, the two big neighbouring countries and ancient civilizations in Asia. It cannot be gainsaid that maintaining solid friendship best serves the fundamental interests between the two Asian neighbours which is essential for making this century the "Asian Century." As Deng Xiaoping, chief architect of China's reform and opening-up policy, had long ago conveyed it to the then Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1988, "No genuine Asian century would come without the development of China, India and other developing countries." As a great visionary as Deng was, he must have sensed the enormous potential of two...