1st Edition
Why Did China Intrude along the Disputed Border with India in May 2020?
Introduction: India–China rivalry, border dispute, border standoffs, and crises
Raj Verma
1. The fallacy of Chinese ‘strategy’ of five fingers of Tibet
Prashant Kumar Singh
2. No petty frontier disputes: China’s salami slicing tactic along the LAC
Rishika Chauhan
3. When does China go to war? Explaining China’s Covid19-driven perceived vulnerability in 2020
Avinash Godbole
4. India’s infrastructure build-up, abrogation of Article 370 and assertive stance regarding Aksai Chin: China’s motivations for intrusions in May 2020
Raj Verma
5. Power, threat, and Chinese assertiveness on the Sino–Indian border
Mahesh Shankar
6. India-China positional and spatial rivalries in the Indo-Pacific region
Dalbir Ahlawat
7. China’s 2020 Line of Actual Control (LAC) incursion: A function of India-US ties?
Harsh V Pant and Vivek Mishra
8. New deterrence demands amidst India–China power asymmetry
Sidharth Raimedhi
Epilogue: growing risks of Sino-Indian border conflict
Raj Verma and Frank O’Donnell
Biography
Raj Verma is non-resident scholar at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. He is the editor/co-editor of seven special issues/sections and the author of more than 40 articles published in journals. His research is focused on India’s and China’s foreign and security policy, Sino–India–US–Russia–Pakistan relations, Asian security, the Global South and the emerging world order, and International Relations theory.
