The Dragon and the Elephant: Chinese-Indian Relations in the 21st Century

Yuan, Jing

doi:10.1162/wash.2007.30.3.131

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“…After Independence, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru mentioned that 'India, constituted as she is, cannot play a second part in world aff airs. She will either count for great deal or no deal at all' (Yuan 2007). China considers this statement as a refl ection of 'hegemonic intentions of India'.…”

Section: India's Perception In China's Mindmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Engaging China's Nuclear and Missile Threat

Kumar

2009

India Quarterly

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The relationship between India and China is guided by mistrust and competition, despite their trade dependence and geographical proximity. India is more conscious of China's nuclear and missile modernization because India's forces lack strategic depth against China. China has strategic doctrine, planning and resources, while India lacks in all these. China also helped Pakistan, which is a crucial point for India to note. This article tries to find out how to deal with these gaps at the strategic, military, diplomatic and economic level.

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Section: India's Perception In China's Mindmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For this, China is adopting military and diplomatic means. (Yuan 2005) China started claiming Indian territories such as Arunachal Pradesh so as to divert India's attention from major issues. Approximately 130 intrusions have been carried out in 2007.…”

Section: India's Perception In China's Mindmentioning

confidence: 99%

Engaging China's Nuclear and Missile Threat

Kumar

2009

India Quarterly

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“…For more than a decade both the countries enjoyed mostly an incessant improvement in their political, economic, and security cooperation though there are unsettled boundary clashes, mutual qualms over military expansion and strategic objectives, potential economic race, and the drifting power balances and rearrangements (Yuan, 2007). Earlier for Beijing, India was a peer competitor due to its hindering problems such as poverty, poor infrastructure, and sluggish bureaucracy.…”

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India and China in the Indian Ocean: Changing Dimensions of Maritime Strategy

Kurian¹,

Vinodan²

2021

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In Asian and global power politics a maritime strategic angle concentrates on the value of fortifying and controlling sea lines of communications (SLOCs) for stability, economic growth, and development of nations. Consequently, both India and China are snooping to control SLOCs and safeguard their emergent and escalating worldwide interests. The advancement in and expansion of naval power satisfies the corresponding nationalist aspirations of Beijing and New Delhi. As a result, the development of their maritime capabilities would have a greater impact on the naval security architecture in the Indian Ocean. The hike in Chinese engagements across the Indian Ocean widely known as the String of Pearl’s stratagem is principally stimulated by a policy of maritime encirclement of India. Struggle to secure tactical energy resources which are quickly revolutionizing their navies could induce clashes and have major repercussions for global security affairs. Harmonious handling of both China’s and India’s cooperation will be crucial for regional as well as international peace and opulence shortly and everyone looks upon a fabulous Asia reflected in the world. Thus, this paper analyses the underlying factors that motivate both countries to have ambitious objectives in the Indian Ocean and could find out that securing energy is one of the driving forces in securing maritime dominance across the Indian Ocean.

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“…Later, some scholars proposed the concept of "The Dragon and the Elephant" to describe their competitive relationship. The international discussion on "The Dragon and the Elephant" has also become a constant topic [4,5]. Most of the literature compared the sustainability of competition and development of the two countries from economic and political perspectives.…”

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Comparison on Multi-Scale Urban Expansion Derived from Nightlight Imagery between China and India

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“The Dragon and the Elephant” between China and India is an important manifestation of global multipolarization in the 21st century. As engines of global economic growth, the two rising powers have followed similar courses of development but possess important differences in modes of development and urban development, which have attracted the widespread attention of scholars. From a geospatial perspective, and based on continuous annual night light data (Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-Operational Linescan System, DMSP-OLS) from 1992 to 2012, this paper conducts a multi-scale comparative analysis of urban development differences between China and India by employing various approaches such as the Gini coefficient, Getis–Ord Gi* index, and the Urban Expansion Intensity Index (UEII). The results show that: (1) The urban land space of the two countries expand rapidly, with the average annual expansion rate of China and India being 5.24% and 3.85%, respectively. The urban land expansion rate in China is 1.36 times faster than that in India. Resource-typed towns in arid northwest China and the resource-typed towns in central India have developed rapidly in recent years. (2) The unbalanced development in India is more prominent than in China; and the regional and provincial development imbalances in China are shrinking, while India’s imbalances are improving slowly and its regional differences are gradually widening. (3) The spatial pattern of land use in both countries shows significant coastal and inland differences. The difference between the east, the central regions, and the west is the main spatial pattern of China’s regional development, while the difference between the north and the south is the spatial pattern of India’s regional development. (4) There are obvious differences in the expansion intensity of core cities between the two countries. From 1997 to 2007, the expansion intensity of core cities in China was relatively higher than that in India, while that in India was relatively higher than that in China from 2007 to 2012.

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The Dragon and the Elephant: Chinese-Indian Relations in the 21st Century

Cited by 15 publications

References 7 publications

Engaging China's Nuclear and Missile Threat

Engaging China's Nuclear and Missile Threat

India and China in the Indian Ocean: Changing Dimensions of Maritime Strategy

Comparison on Multi-Scale Urban Expansion Derived from Nightlight Imagery between China and India

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