Home Minister Rajnath Singh has come under fire in Beijing for comments made earlier this week stating that India had "culturally controlled and dominated China" for 2,000 years. Speaking at a tourism festival, Singh was highlighting the attractiveness of Indian culture and referring to the spread of Buddhism from India to China. Quoting Chinese scholar Hu Shih, Singh noted that Hu had observed that India had, through Buddhism, "culturally controlled and dominated" China "without sending a single soldier". "That is the effect of India," Singh was quoted as saying. That did not, however, stop the media and experts from dubbing the minister as "inappropriate".

Source: India Today October 26, 2017 05:26 UTC