ABSTRACT
This book explores the scope and extent of the growing Chinese influence in India’s neighbourhood and its impact on India as well as on Asian power politics.
Through theoretical narratives and detailed case studies, it examines Chinese bilateral relationships in the Indian neighbourhood and looks at the extent and significance of Chinese influence through the lens of strategic, economic and infrastructural arrangements and Chinese interventions in South, Southeast, and Central Asia. The book takes into account regional voices and domestic political compulsions in understanding what they make of the Chinese narrative and examines how and whether the narrative has changed in recent years through the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as an instrument of Chinese public diplomacy. The volume also discusses how domestic narratives and compulsions in the Indian neighbourhood remain significant and how these, in turn, would impact the trajectory of Chinese public diplomacy. Intertwined through all these themes is a focus on the extent to which these could become potential flashpoints for India.
This book will be a useful resource for academics and researchers working on Asian geopolitics and geo-economics, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese politics, international relations of Asia, Asian dynamics and Asian studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|54 pages
Transcendental boundaries in neighbourhoods
chapter 3|21 pages
Bootlegging in South Asia's neighbourhood
part II|56 pages
Connectivity and conundrum in the South Asian neighbourbood
part III|52 pages
Evolving dynamics and networks in the neighbourhood
chapter 9|16 pages
Prospects of continuity and change of China's role in Central Asia
chapter 10|17 pages
The ethnic dynamics in Myanmar-China strategic interests
part IV|50 pages
Negotiating narratives of maritime neighbourhoods
chapter 12|15 pages
India-China rivalry in Sri Lanka
part V|28 pages
Extended Neighbourhood