As Chinese President Hu Jintao arrives here tomorrow on a four-day visit, India will look for an even-handed policy from Beijing on the Indo-Pak dispute over Jammu and Kashmir.

China, in turn, will seek renewed assurances that New Delhi has no intention to play the Tibet card against it.

Amidst a new diplomatic play on the old themes of Kashmir and Tibet, China`s increasing economic activity in the parts of J&K controlled by Pakistan, and the lack of balance in Beijing’s approach to PoK and Indian Kashmir have become important concerns for the Indian government.

At a time when the UPA government is engaged in sensitive and ‘‘purposeful’’ talks on Kashmir with Pakistan, the role of China, which is in control of different parts of the original state of J&K, has inevitably acquired a new significance.

New Delhi’s attitude to Tibet has also become important amidst the on-going ‘‘unofficial’’ Chinese talks with the representatives of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetans who took political refuge in India more than four decades ago.

In recent years, New Delhi and Beijing have traded mutual concessions on the two important territorial issues that have hobbled bilateral relations for so long.

When he visited New Delhi and Islamabad exactly a decade ago, Chinese President Jiang Zemin offered an important advance in Beijing`s position on J&K.

After decades of a political tilt towards Pakistan, including the support for Kashmiri self-determination and the UN resolutions on J&K, Jiang suggested in a speech to the Pak Senate that New Delhi and Islamabad should put aside their dispute and embark on mutually beneficial cooperation.

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