India and China have agreed to hold their first ever joint army exercise as part of a wider effort to improve ties between the one-time Asian enemies, military officials said on Thursday.
The manoeuvres are slated for October and will see 100 Indian troops sent to China for a workout in anti-terrorism tactics, the Indian army chief, General J J Singh, was quoted as saying by the Indian Express newspaper. "We had a small thing earlier-not an exercise but a mountaineering expedition-two years ago," army spokesman Colonel S K Sakhuja told AFP.