Talk to China confidently, says Khurshid

India needs to talk to China in a voice which has strength and confidence and is not meek, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said here Tuesday.

"India needs to have a cognitive and accommodative conversation with China. The conversation should be in a voice which has strength, effectiveness, confidence and belief and not a meek voice," Khurshid said while delivering a lecture here on Regional Integration of India with Asia.

"The conversation should be acommodative from time to time with domestic need", he said.

Khurshid said "given the criticality of integration of India with Asian countries, the approach that we take to further the economic integration and to face the various economic, political and social challenges to bring the nation together, is extremely important".

He said there "is a growing and important need for proportional representation in India for better governance, which would lead to enhanced and effective economic integration within Asia".