Smart Diplomacy

Exploring China-India Synergy

This book explores the diplomatic, political, strategic, and ideological cross-currents in the fragile but promising state-to-state relationship between China and India. Set in a geopolitical context ten years after the two Asian neighbours had agreed to fashion a Strategic and Cooperative Partnership for Peace and Prosperity, the analysis is focused on the promise as well as the portents. Looking ahead, the author envisions a sunrise idea of Sino–Indian Smart Zone as a possible post-modern scenario.

Contents:

• Sunrise Powers of the Twenty-First Century:

  • Global Status of China and India
  • Snap-Shot of Economic and Military Profiles
  • Strategic Synergies
  • New Sea-Cyber-Space Paradigm of Power
  • More than What Meets the Eye
  • Games and Counter-Games
  • A Space-Leap Forward
  • Towards China–India Synergy in Space

• Ideologies of the Heart and the Mind:

  • Lure and Logic of Sino–Indian Five Principles
  • Beyond the Original Tibetan Context
  • Unusual 'Niche' for Five Principles
  • Nonalignment and Neo-Nonalignment
  • The Anti-Hegemony Norm

• Interests and Concerns:

  • The Core of Sino–Indian Ties
  • The Pakistan Factor
  • A Nuclear Dimension
  • The Tibet Puzzle
  • India's 'Closed Window' on Tibet

• Synergies and Power Politics:

  • An Upswing in India–US Defence Ties
  • Russia and a Tale of Two Friends
  • The Xi Doctrine
  • Sino–Indian Counter-Terror Synergy
  • Towards Sino–Indian Economic Synergy
  • A Unique China–India Nuclear Mantra
  • China and India in the US Calculus
  • An Asian Security Council

• A Creative Scenario:

  • Strategic and Historic Borders
  • A History-Shaping Pullout
  • Enigmatic Realities
  • 'Clarification of Line of Actual Control'
  • 'One-China, One-India'

• Talking the Walk Towards…:

  • From 'Strategic Partnership' to 'Major-Power' Engagement
  • India Asks China to Reconsider its Approach
  • Plain Markers for the Future

• Appendices:

  • China's Perspective on India
  • India's Perspective on China
  • An Internationalist Perspective on China–India Ties

Readership: Students and researchers interested in China–India relations;diplomats, policy makers, scholars, journalists and general readers.
Key Features:

• By being focused on China–India relations in the context of a newly-‘assertive’ India, the book differs significantly from other titles on Sino–Indian issues
• Emphasizes the new model of neighbourliness between two ‘rival’ states and the imaginative scenario of a possible Sino–Indian Smart Zone that could become a Sino–Indian Hemisphere