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Illustrate the main causes of tension between India and China. Suggest the possibilities of improving relationship.

  • UPSC 2016
  • 10 marks
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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The Asian giants began with Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai and the Panchsheel of 1954 and ended up at war in 1962. Realist readings borrow the Chinese proverb that one mountain cannot hold two tigers. In John H. Herz's terms (1950), it is also a security dilemma: each side's defensive moves read as offence to the other.

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