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Examine the changes in China’s India policy in 1990’s. Do you attribute these changes to the altered global environment or to the domestic factors?

  • UPSC 1996
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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Rajiv Gandhi's visit to Beijing in December 1988 opened the door; in the 1990s China chose to walk through it. Beijing moved from cold hostility to managed engagement. Both causes in the question operated, but they worked at different levels: the global shift supplied the opportunity, and domestic priorities supplied the motive.

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