India-China : Trade and Strategy for Frontier Development

Contents: Preface. I. Reforms, trade and growth: 1. India-China trade analysis report/Ramgopal Agarwala. 2. Some aspects of external trade and investment for India and China/Ajitava Raychaudhuri. 3. Understanding Sino-Indian economic relationship: towards developing new age of partnership/Biswajit Nag, Rittwik Chatterjee and Sunando Basu. 4. Indo-China trade: complementarity and competition/Rajat Acharyya and Soumya Sahin. 5. Enhancing India\'s export to China: issues and way forward/Prabir De. 6. Economic reforms, growth and sectoral spending: evidence from China and India/Pinaki Chakraborty and Yan Zhang. II. Bilateral relationship, strategic engagement and development: 7. China-China relations: time for a new beginning/Lakhan Mehrotra. 8. Towards a shifting paradigm in Sino-Indian relations: beyond the anarchy problematic?/Gautam Kumar Basu. 9. Engagement with China in multilateral forums: two case studies/Patricia Uberoi. 10. Time to talk with China/B.G. Verghese. 11. India and China: debating modernity/Sanjib Baruah. 12. The Burma factor in India-China economic relations/Renaud Egreteau. 13. China-India relations: economic interdependence, strategic partnership and regional security/Bhabananda Takhellambam. III. Border trade and frontier development: 14. significance of Nathu La: border trade in China-India relations/Swaran Singh. 15. Only the trade question: border and bounty in the new country/Prasenjit Biswas. 16. Development of national peripheries through mobilizing cross-border synergies: a case for Sino-Indian cooperation for the development of India\'s northeast and China\'s southwest/Gurudas Das and K. Gyanendra Singh. 17. Potentials of bio-resource products of north east India for trade across the Indo-China border: a note/Jyoti Prakash Tamang. 18. India-China border trade through Nathu La Pass in Sikkim: a note/S.B. Subba. 19. Reviving the traditional trade route: a study of cross-border trade of Arunachal Pradesh in perspective/M.A. Salam. 20. Participatory trade along the frontiers of China and India/Rajen Singh Laishram.

Unprecedented development has taken place in India-China economic relations over the last decade. One time political adversaries have become partners in trade and development. This volume analyzes the nature of bilateral trade and identifies the road blocks that need to be addressed for further cementing the bilateral economic relation. Some contributors have made a case for the use of cross-border synergies for the development of the frontier areas in both India and China. As the market-led national development model has failed to infuse growth in the peripheries, this has resulted into secessionist demands by the communities living therein. This volume stresses on the use of border trade as a strategic tool for the development of the peripheral frontier regions in both India and China. (jacket)