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Examine the Geo-strategic points of contention in the bilateral relationship between India and China.

  • UPSC 2021
  • 15 marks
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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India and China are rising post-colonial civilisational states whose interests overlap from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean, Central Asia and Africa. John W. Garver (Protracted Contest, 2001) traced a rivalry in which each sees itself as Asia's natural leading power. The contention is geographic before it is ideological.

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  • The Himalayan frontier
  • Pakistan and the two-front problem
  • The Indian Ocean and the neighbourhood
  • The Indo-Pacific and global arenas
  • Testing the "rivalry" reading
  • Conclusion
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