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Why have relations between India and China, which comprise nearly forty per cent of the world’s population, been troubled for over sixty years? A war in 1962 was followed by decades of uneasy peace, but in recent years a rising number of serious military confrontations has underlined their huge and growing differences.This book examines these differences in four crucial areas: their perceptions and prejudices about each other; their continuing disagreements over the border; their changing partnerships with America and Russia; and the growing power asymmetry between them, which affects all aspects of their relationship. China demands deference as a Great Power and the dominant country in Asia, while India wants recognition and respect as an equal. With such a deep divide separating the two neighbours, what does the future hold?

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Kanti Bajpai has combined his erudition with his flawless teaching skills and informal and formal travels, experiences, conferences, interactions and all to capture the very pith of the ailing India-china relations. There have been periods of entente, no doubt, especially from 1949 till 1959 and 1991 till 2000. But the relationship has been fraught for the extended periods, qua factors, endogenous as well exogenous. From 2005 onwards, the down-slide is continuous. At the heart of the matter is, does China care? The Comprehensive power parameter of China roughly is 7.2 times that of India's. The book also gives a beautiful elucidation of what the basics of Soft power are and how China beats India on that count hands down. The best part is that India is ranked as the 4th most favorable neighbour by the Chinese popular surveys, ahead of South Korea. Contrary to the common perceptions, there are protests in China at the provincial level, mostly driven by high utility bills, house rents, broken contracts, labour etc.Uzair Qadri.

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A renowned scholar of international affairs with a special interest in Indian foreign policy and India–China relations, Kanti Bajpai is the Wilmar Professor of Asian Studies at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He has taught at Oxford University, Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, and Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, and has also been headmaster of the Doon School, Dehradun.

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