New Delhi: Favouring closer ties with China, foreign policy analysts on November 20 said India needs to overcome the "1962 syndrome" when dealing with its Northern neighbour.

"We have been discussing this issue (1962 war) as a betrayal by China but need to look at what led to it," Fellow of Institute of Chinese Studies Mira Sinha- Bhattacharjea said at a seminar on the recent Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.

"There has been a lot of heartburning on the topic and not soul-searching. We have to analyse whether we had made any mistakes then," she said.

To solve the vexed border issue, she suggested studying the agreements China signed with Russia and Central Asian Republics to sort out similar problems.

China expert Manoranjan Mohanty said the new Chinese leadership has left very few ambiguities about taking the country on President Jiang Zemin's vision to quadrapule the 2000 GDP levels by 2020.

M V Rappai of the Institute of Chinese Studies and V P Dutt, former pro Vice- Chancellor of Delhi University, also participated in the seminar co-ordinated by C V Ranganathan, convenor of the National Security Advisory Board.

The panel was of the opinion that India does not have a role in solving the Tibet issue.

"Chinese leadership and the Dalai Lama should negotiate and sort out the issue. India has no role in it," Dutt said.

Rappai commended Jintao's role in separating the People's Liberation Army from commercial activities and his plans to bring it totally under the control of the Communist Party.

PTI