ABSTRACT
In April 2005, the leaders of both China and India declared that both countries are committed to build up a ‘strategic cooperative partnership toward peace and prosperity’. However, this partnership has been mainly developed with regard to global economic issues. The political, security and social interactions of the two nations are still limited one way or the other and the efforts of building up ‘strategic partnership’ have been troubled and sometimes even derailed by various disturbances. In fact, Sino–India partnership is still very limited in many areas. Nevertheless, it is strongly believed that building up an unbreakable ‘strategic partnership’ is a must for both China and India to rise as global powers in non-occidental ways. The increasing common ground shared by these two countries will serve as the powerful adhesive to such partnership.
