The Five T's

In a good article for the WorldTribune.com John Metzler has done a wonderful job describing the recent attempt by China to reach an agreement with India on their long standing border dispute. His whole premise is based on five t's: Territory, Tibet, Trade, Technology and Tokyo.
Territory obviously being the settlement about both countries long standing territorial disputes. Tibet is getting India to recognize that Tibet is a part of China, and to stop the Indian aid that is given to Tibetan dissidents. Trade is obviously increasing the economic cooperation of the two Asian giants, which currently stands at $13 billion and is expected to reach $30 billion in 2010. Technology is China wishing to use India’s strong software industry in conjunction with its own strong hardware base to control the world technology market, in what the Chinese Premier Wen said would be the "Asian Century".
The final T is for Tokyo and that relates to Japan’s hopes of becoming a permanent member of the UN Security Council. China hopes to derail the Japanese attempt at achieving a permanent Council seat with the help of India and other of its allies. The main reason for not wanting Japan on the Security Council is not Japans history as the PRC would like everyone to think, but instead it believes that a seat for Japan would be a victory for the United States and China can't have that.