ABSTRACT

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 chapters 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: constructing the other
  • Core bilateral conflicts
  • Military relations
  • Economy and development
  • Relations with third parties
  • China, India, and global order

This handbook will be an essential reference work for scholars interested in International Relations, Asian Politics, Global Politics, and China–India relations.

chapter |17 pages

Introduction

Taking stock—a multi-disciplinary view of China–India relations

part 1|72 pages

Historical overviews

part 2|62 pages

Culture and strategic culture

chapter 6|20 pages

The alien next door

Media images in China and India

chapter 7|12 pages

India in China’s strategic thought

chapter 8|16 pages

China in India’s strategic thought

part 3|58 pages

Core bilateral conflicts

chapter 9|11 pages

Stability in a secondary strategic direction

China and the border dispute with India after 1962

chapter 10|15 pages

Differences not disputes

India’s view of the border after 1962

chapter 11|14 pages

Solving a solved problem

The Tibet issue in China–India relations

chapter 12|16 pages

China–India river-water conflicts

Toward a solution through launching a cooperation spiral

part 4|64 pages

Military relations

chapter 13|13 pages

Offensive defense

India’s strategic responses to the rise of China

chapter 14|12 pages

Asymmetric but uneven

The China–India conventional military balance

chapter 15|14 pages

China–India and maritime security

A contest for power and influence in the Indian Ocean

chapter 16|23 pages

China and India

Two models for AI military acquisition and integration

part 5|74 pages

Economy and connectivity

chapter 18|12 pages

China, India, and Asian connectivity

China’s view

chapter 19|18 pages

China, India, and Asian connectivity

India’s view

chapter 20|16 pages

Divergent capitalism in China and India

A historical institutionalist approach

chapter 21|14 pages

Contested partnership

China and India in a changing BRICS

part 6|136 pages

Relations with third parties

chapter 22|15 pages

The China–India–US triangle

A view from Washington

chapter 23|16 pages

Russia

A balancer in India–China relations?

chapter 25|10 pages

India and the China–Pakistan relationship

De-hyphenation and re-hyphenation

chapter 26|14 pages

Across the Himalayas

China in India’s neighborhood

chapter 27|15 pages

Unequal rivals

China, India, and the struggle for influence in Southeast Asia

chapter 28|17 pages

China and India in the Middle East

The rivalry moves west?

chapter 29|16 pages

China and India’s engagement with Africa

Seeking national interests

chapter 30|17 pages

Beyond triangulation

Latin America and the Caribbean’s relations with China and India in the era of the Belt and Road Initiative

part 7|96 pages

China, India, and global order

chapter 32|14 pages

China, India, and outer space

Cooperation and competition in the global commons

chapter 33|20 pages

China, India, and global security

Deploying to UN peacekeeping operations and shaping the responsibility to protect

chapter 34|27 pages

China and India

Continuity and change in climate negotiations

chapter 35|17 pages

Engaging global health governance

The experience of China and India