ABSTRACT
This chapter contextualises the BCIM in the Sino-Indian competition for regional power in Asia. Besides examining the geo-economic ambitions of China in capturing South Asian markets, it also explains her geo-political goals of making China a two-ocean nation, by way of accessing the ports of Myanmar, Bangladesh and India in the Bay of Bengal, encircling India by way of cultivating and alluring its small neighbours, and bringing India’s Northeast under Chinese influence in order to strengthen her claim over Arunachal Pradesh.
