ABSTRACT
China and India rising together in a strategic sense is, no doubt, a highly encouraging process in terms of its profound influence on and implications for the prevailing international politico-economic structure. The workings of the outstanding issues regarding China's engagement with India in the volatile regional and global context tend to keep this relationship unstable and uncertain. Thus, the best way of stabilising the relationship is to enhance mutual trust and confidence by institutionalising their strategic engagements at the bilateral, regional and global levels. As a result of chronic trust deficit and deficiency of effective bilateral regimes of engagements, India's rise in strategic sense might create some complicated geopolitical ramifications for China and for Sino-Indian relations, despite its visible merits and advantages in general. Sustaining and deepening China-India strategic interaction will considerably influence the nature and the trajectory of the bilateral relations in the future.
