2nd Edition
Routledge Handbook of China–India Relations
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Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Taking stock—a multi-disciplinary view of China–India relations
Kanti Bajpai, Selina Ho, and Manjari Chatterjee Miller
1 Reflections on comparing China and India
Tarun Khanna
PART I
Historical overviews
2. China and India pre-1939
Rudolf G. Wagner
3. Relations between the Republic of China and India, 1937–1949
Tansen Sen
PART II
Culture and strategic culture: Constructing the other
4. Shooting the messengers: The downward slide in China-–India media relations, 2008–2024
Ananth Krishnan
5. China in India’s strategic thought
Ian Hall
6. India in China’s strategic thought
Zhang Feng
PART III
Core bilateral conflicts
7. Stability in a secondary strategic direction: China and the border dispute with India from 1962 to 2020
M. Taylor Fravel
8. Solving a solved problem: The Tibet issue in China–India relations
Fang Tien-sze
9. China–India river-water conflicts: Toward a solution through launching a cooperation spiral revisited
Sebastian Biba
PART IV
Military relations
10. Multiple complexities: India’s China strategy before and after Galwan
Yogesh Joshi and Anit Mukherjee
11. Asymmetric but uneven: The China–India conventional military balance
Oriana Skylar Mastro and Arzan Tarapore
12. China–India and maritime security: A contest for power and influence in the Indian Ocean
David Brewster
13. China and India: Two models for AI military acquisition and integration revisited
Lora Saalman
PART V
Economy and development
14. Competitive convergence: China and India in the new global era
Ye Min
15. Contested partnership: China and India in the evolving BRICS landscape
Gu Jing
16. India’s response to the Belt and Road Initiative
Li Li
PART VI
Relations with third parties
17. American assessments of India and China post-Galwan
Zack Cooper
18. Assessing Russia’s salience in India–China relations
Vidya Nadkarni
19. India, China, and Pakistan: Southern Asia’s changing strategic triangle
Christopher Clary
20. Not a substitute for China?: Japan’s perspective of India as a prospective partner in Asia
Izuyama Marie
21. Across the Himalayas: China in India’s neighborhood
Constantino Xavier
22. A China–India–Myanmar triangle?
Sun Yun
23. Rivals at sea: India’s rise against China in the South China Sea and East China Sea
Ji Yeon-jung
24. China and India in the Middle East: The rivalry moves west?
Nicolas Blarel
25. China’s and India’s engagement with Africa: Pursuing national interests
Wu Fuzuo
PART VII
China, India, and the global order
26. China, India, and global security: Deploying to UN peacekeeping operations and shaping the responsibility to protect
Courtney J. Fung
27. China, India, and global health governance
Huang Yanzhong and Jin Jiyong
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Biography
Kanti Bajpai is Visiting Professor of International Relations at Ashoka University, Sonipat, India, and Emeritus Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.
Selina Ho is Dean’s Chair Associate Professor in International Affairs and Vice-Dean (Research and Development) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.
Manjari Chatterjee Miller is Professor of International Relations and the inaugural Munk Chair in Global India at the Munk School. She is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
