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Does the idea of the 21st century as ‘Asian century’ continue to remain feasible given the growing friction between India and China?

  • UPSC 2024
  • 15 marks
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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The idea has an Indian–Chinese birth certificate: Deng Xiaoping told Rajiv Gandhi in Beijing in December 1988 that no genuine Asia-Pacific century could come unless China and India both developed. Parag Khanna's The Future Is Asian (2019) gives the popular form: a world Europeanised in the nineteenth century, Americanised in the twentieth and now being…

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  • What the Asian century claims
  • Why India–China friction undermines it
  • Why the idea survives
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