The Double-Edged Sword: Reviewing India–China Relations

Chris Ogden

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, 2022, vol. 78, issue 2, 210-228

Abstract: As Asia’s largest and most rapidly rising powers in contemporary global politics, relations between India and China are becoming evermore intertwined with each other. Clear commonalities typify this symbiosis, including a shared civilisational basis, a mutual desire to rebecome great powers in international relations and common modernisation goals. At the same time, relations are beset by a number of issues, most notably long-standing territorial disputes, frictions over regional hegemony and wider diplomatic tensions (most prominently relating to China–Pakistan and India–United States ties). As such, India–China relations can be considered to resemble a ‘double-edged sword’, whereby elements of their interaction can be regarded as having concurrent benefits and liabilities . This article explores the historical roots and contemporary realisation of such a core dynamic over the last 75 years of relations between New Delhi and Beijing and investigates how their strategic goals are often simultaneously convergent and divergent.

Keywords: China; India; threat perception; security dilemma; multipolar; Galwan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/09749284221089530

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