Changing Geopolitics and Negotiating Postures in the India-China Border Dispute

  • Daulet Singh Z
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Abstract

The article is based on the author’s most recent book Powershift: India-China Relations in a Multipolar World (2020). It retraces the most salient moments and episodes in the India China border issue ever since the crisis broke out in 1959. What we learn from history is Chinese leaders have often shaped their policy on India as part of a wider geopolitical calculus, typically linked to the degree of pressure Chinese perceive on other geopolitical fronts. For India too, the nature of great powers relations impacts how it formulates China policy. This basic framework has remained relevant until the present day.Over the past decade, as the world order began shifting to a multipolar balance of power, India and China have confronted challenges in their relationship. The relationship is at a crossroad, and both Delhi and Beijing are struggling to find an equilibrium that allows both sides to pursue their interests and visions. Nevertheless, as Asia is returning to what it was for 1,800 years of the last two millennia, and, it is that big picture trend that Indian and Chinese leaders must pay attention to. Ultimately, this means stabilising India China relations

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Daulet Singh, Z. (2021). Changing Geopolitics and Negotiating Postures in the India-China Border Dispute. Outlines of Global Transformations: Politics, Economics, Law, 14(2), 66–81. https://doi.org/10.23932/2542-0240-2021-14-2-4

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