India News: Salman Khurshid refused to deal with China. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid is expected to strongly take up the issue of gaining greater access to the Chinese market during his visit there on Thursday.

Soaring trade deficit with China has remained a concern for the government for a long time. The ministry of commerce and industry had even worked out a strategy paper in 2009-10 outlining ways to increase India's exports to China. But there had been no movement on that since then.