Table Of ContentRoutledge Handbook of China–India
Relations
The Routledge Handbook of China–India Relations provides a much-needed understanding
of the important and complex relationship between India and China. Reflecting the
consequential and multifaceted nature of the bilateral relationship, it brings together
thirty-five original contributions by a wide range of experts in the field. The c hapters
show that China–India relations are more far-reaching and complicated than ever
and marked by both conflict and cooperation. Following a thorough introduction by
the Editors, the handbook is divided into seven parts which combine thematic and
chronological principles:
• Historical overviews
• Culture and strategic culture
• Core bilateral conflicts
• Military relations
• Economy and connectivity
• Relations with third parties
• China, India, and global order
This handbook will be an essential reference work for scholars interested in Interna-
tional Relations, Asian Politics, Global Politics, and China–India relations.
Kanti Bajpai is Wilmar Professor of Asian Studies and Director of the Centre on Asia
and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of
Singapore.
Selina Ho is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Master in International Affairs Pro-
gramme at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.
Manjari Chatterjee Miller is Associate Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School
of Global Studies, Boston University, USA, and a Research Associate at the School of
Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford, UK.
Routledge Handbook of
China–India Relations
Edited by
Kanti Bajpai, Selina Ho and
Manjari Chatterjee Miller
First published 2020
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bajpai, Kanti P., 1955– editor | Ho, Selina, editor. |
Miller, Manjari Chatterjee, 1976– editor.
Title: Routledge handbook of China–India relations /
edited by Kanti Bajpai, Selina Ho and Manjari Chatterjee Miller.
Other titles: China India relations
Description: New York: Routledge, 2020. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019049361
Subjects: LCSH: China—Foreign relations—India. |
India—Foreign relations—China.
Classification: LCC DS740.5.I5 R68 2020 | DDC 303.48/251054—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019049361
ISBN: 978-1-138-54593-9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-351-00156-4 (ebk)
Typeset in Bembo
by codeMantra
Advisory Council
Rosemary Foot, Oxford University
Carla P. Freeman, Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced
International Studies
John Garver, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jia Qingguo, Peking University
David M. Lampton, Stanford University
Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard University
Shivshankar Menon, former Foreign Secretary and National Security
Advisor of India
T.V. Paul, McGill University
Nirupama Rao, former Foreign Secretary of India
Shen Dingli, Fudan University
To the memory of Roderick MacFarquhar (1930–2019) and
Rudolf Wagner (1941–2019)
Contents
List of figures xi
List of tables xii
List of contributors xiii
Acknowledgments xviii
Introduction: taking stock—a multi-disciplinary view of
China–India relations 1
KANTI BAJPAI, SELINA HO AND MANJARI CHATTERJEE MILLER
1 Reflections on comparing China and India 18
TARUN KHANNA
PART 1
Historical overviews 33
2 China and India pre-1939 35
RUDOLF G. WAGNER
3 Relations between the Republic of China and India, 1937–1949 63
TANSEN SEN
4 The 1950s in China–India relations 87
HU XIAOWEN
PART 2
Culture and strategic culture 105
5 The new Indian communities in China 107
PALLAVI AIYAR
6 The alien next door: media images in China and India 119
SIMON SHEN AND DEBASISH ROY CHOWDHURY
viii Contents
7 India in China’s strategic thought 139
ZHANG FENG
8 China in India’s strategic thought 151
IAN HALL
PART 3
Core bilateral conflicts 167
9 Stability in a secondary strategic direction: China and the
border dispute with India after 1962 169
M. TAYLOR FRAVEL
10 Differences not disputes: India’s view of the border after 1962 180
RISHIKA CHAUHAN
11 Solving a solved problem: the Tibet issue in
China–India relations 195
FANG TIEN-SZE
12 China–India river-water conflicts: toward a solution
through launching a cooperation spiral 209
SEBASTIAN BIBA
PART 4
Military relations 225
13 Offensive defense: India’s strategic responses to the
rise of China 227
YOGESH JOSHI AND ANIT MUKHERJEE
14 Asymmetric but uneven: the China–India conventional
military balance 240
ORIANA SKYLAR MASTRO AND ARZAN TARAPORE
15 China–India and maritime security: a contest for power
and influence in the Indian Ocean 252
DAVID BREWSTER
16 China and India: two models for AI military acquisition
and integration 266
LORA SAALMAN
Contents ix
PART 5
Economy and connectivity 289
17 Bilateral economic relations amid trade and trust deficits 291
PRADEEP TANEJA
18 China, India, and Asian connectivity: China’s view 303
LIN MINWANG
19 China, India, and Asian connectivity: India’s view 315
JABIN T. JACOB
20 Divergent capitalism in China and India: a historical
institutionalist approach 333
YE MIN
21 Contested partnership: China and India in a
changing BRICS 349
GU JING AND NEIL RENWICK
PART 6
Relations with third parties 363
22 The China–India–US triangle: a view from Washington 365
JEFF M. SMITH
23 Russia: a balancer in India–China relations? 380
VIDYA NADKARNI
24 India, China, and Japan’s policy of Asian regionalism 396
IZUYAMA MARIE
25 India and the China–Pakistan relationship: de-hyphenation
and re-hyphenation 410
ANDREW SMALL
26 Across the Himalayas: China in India’s neighborhood 420
CONSTANTINO XAVIER
27 Unequal rivals: China, India, and the struggle for influence in
Southeast Asia 434
SHERYN LEE
