ABOUT THE BOOK
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The People’s Republic of China
(PRC) is India’s powerful neighbor since the first year of 1950’s. Before that,
without prejudice to the issue of its status of sovereignty or Chinese
suzerainty, Tibet had de facto fulfilled
the role. That fact of past unfamiliarity with Chinese way of
politico-diplomatic expressions, aided by China’s unilaterally adopted
adversarial posture towards India, makes it imperative for India’s strategic
community to study China’s moves very carefully, and draw conclusions for the
purpose of managing the strained relationship. This book is a compilation of
such observations, analyses and inferences.
Study of PRC’s various
initiatives which have direct or indirect bearing on India and the methods adopted
to implement those is a tough call. This is so because in dealing with
inter-state relations, the Chinese leadership arrogate the right of defining
the issues according to their partisan perceptions and exclusive stratagem. To
that extent, papers contained in this book narrate the factual and honest
impressions which China’s policies and actions, as these relate to India’s
concerns, depict. The purpose of this book would be served if these impressions
are taken note of in PRC’s future bilateral discourse in true spirit of
mutuality.
ABOUT Author
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Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) is a nonpartisan
institute for dialogue on national concerns, analyses of policy options and management
of challenging issues from a nationalist perspective. It is an assembly of some
of India’s leading expert in the fields of national security, military,
diplomacy, governance, etc. who have committed under the aegis of the institute
to generate ideas and stimulate actions for greater national security and prosperity.
Independently funded, VIF is not
aligned to any political party or business house. Neither is it committed to
any defined line of thinking but to remain cognisant to what its nationally and
internationally venerated members consider to be the best for national good and
best governance. It performs its charter through regular confabulations with
globally regarded think tanks and venerated thinkers of the time, both national
and global. Well regarded among leading think tanks, the Foundation also organises
regular interactions with key policy makers of various nations with the purpose
of promoting mutual understanding, strengthening friendship and reconciling
differences.