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Comment: China’s foreign policy towards Pakistan in the present context.

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  • Recent Developments in Indian Foreign Policy

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China calls Pakistan its "all-weather" strategic partner. Its logic is the one Kautilya gave in the mandala theory, that the state beyond one's neighbour is a natural ally; in modern terms it is balancing, which Stephen M. Walt's balance-of-threat theory (The Origins of Alliances, 1987) explains better than ideology. John W. Garver (Protracted Contest, 2001)…

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