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INDIA -CHINA (Present state of relation - 2017 (Jeff Smith (He mentions 6…

- - - - (China-India relation under Modi: Playing with Fire) - Since present govt has deepened its investment in US containment policy, China has withdrawn its offers of strategic cooperation. It has returned to old policy of isolating and neutralising India. E.g. NSG, Masood Azhar, offered USD 14 billion to Nepal to construct the tunnel and CPEC
        
        As a result of present policies, China's support to Pak has become stronger from the status of all weather friend, it has become legal guardian.
      - China's OBOR is a master stroke against USA's Rebalancing. China has taken maximum advantage of Ukrainian crises - neutralised Russia's opposition to China's inroads into Central Asia, converted Russia into an ally of Pakistan.
    - - Choices with India -
        
        India needs a hedging strategy.
        
        Re-establish closeness with Russia;
        
        Continue upward trend with US and Japan;
        
        Go for diplomatic pressure;
        
        Go for selective engagement with China;
        
        Remind US that India has other options too.
        
        Enhance India's military power;
      - India needs to be extremely patient beyond normal;
      - According to him, power is of course not everything in IR but ignoring a massive power differential is a strategic blindness.
  - - - Encirclement is a kind of strengthened Chinese strategic presence in Tibet, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Indian Ocean. .
      - Envelopment is essentially integrating all of India's neighbours into the Chinese economy
      - Entanglement is exploiting India's domestic contradictions and multiple security concerns
- - - - We should try to extract maximum from USA's desire to contain China because the kind of danger that latter poses will affect our interests as well. However, India should not put all its eggs in the USA's basket. There is an element of uncertainty with USA's capacities and cooperation in SCS
      - China is becoming increasingly assertive in the Asia-Pacific region. This is becoming a formidable challenge for all the countries in the region.