Threat from China
Contents: 1. Threat from China/Bharat Verma. 2. Is India scared of China?/Prakash Nanda. 3. China: friend or foe?/Claude Arpi. 4. Tibet: the real issue/Sheru Thapliyal. 5. India-China relations: some reflections/Kanwal Sibal. 6. The fall of the dragon/Ashish Puntambekar. 7. The Tibetan factor/Claude Arpi. 8. Himalayan rivers: geopolitics and strategic perspectives/Claude Arpi. 9. Nuclear and missile threat from China: China\'s second artillery corps/Sheru Thapliyal. 10. Missiles in Tibet/Claude Arpi. 11. State, strategy, power and policy: analysing China and India/Narayan Menon. 12. China-India maritime rivalry/Gurpreet S. Khurana. 13. The Chinese conundrum: friends and foes/Nayayan Menon. 14. The killers mace of the dark visitors/Claude Arpi. 15. India and China in space/Jagannath P. Panda and Ajey Lele. 16. An analysis of China\'s white papers on defense/Claude Arpi. 17. Strategic implications of Dalai Lama\'s flight to India/Claude Arpi. 18. Nervous China may attack India by 2012/Bharat Verma. 19. China: harmony or chaos?/Claude Arpi. 20. India must counter China\'s imperial ambitions/Bharat Verma. 21. Chinese incursions, now and then/Claude Arpi. 22. Myanmar: China\'s emerging nuclear proxy/RSN Singh. 23. China\'s string of pearls vs India\'s iron curtain/Ranjit B. Rai. 24. Is war around the corner?/Arun Kumar Singh. 25. Facing the dragon: is India prepared?/Dhruv C. Katoch. 26. China: beyond 2010/Claude Arpi. 27. Nightmare 2012: Chinese special forces cut off Siliguri corridor/Bharat Verma. 28. China\'s new Asia policy: emerging contours/Jayadeva Ranade. 29. Dragon at the door: the gathering storm across the Himalayas/Harwant Singh. 30. Unpredictable China: are we prepared/Narender Kumar. 31. The China factor in Nepal/RSN Singh. 32. India caught between and the Deep Sea/B. Raman. 33. Implications of China\'s rise/Sheru Thapliyal. 34. Calling China\'s bluff/RSN Singh. 35. Sino-Pak strategic partnership: the Chinese vision/Priyadarsi Mukherji. 36. Lengthening malevolent Chinese shadow/Sheru Thapliyal. 37. India and the US-China great game/RSN Singh. 38. China: a new kind of superpower in the making/Bhaskar Roy. 39. India and China in Europe/B. Raman. 40. The China factor in Kashmir/RSN Singh. 41. China\'s new cold war: democracies in danger/Bharat Verma. 42. The challenge of China/Vinay Shankar.
The multi-dimensional threat between 2011 and 2014 from China is real.
The threat from China has crept to level Orange for the past many years and the creeping invasion built over decades displays great features of stealth.
First, they invaded and forcibly occupied independent Tibet. Subsequently, to protect their flank in Tibet, the Chinese demand that Arunachal be part of China. Theoretically, even if India hands over conveniently termed southern Tibet, they will want to occupy whole of northeast to protect flanks of Arunachal.
China primarily feels threatened by existence of the union of India as it challenges their ambition of being the unilateral power leading Asia. Instead of integration of the citizenry and consolidation of different regions, our shortsighted politicians extend a helping hand to China and Pakistan by dividing Indians internally for vote-bank-politics.
Indians continue to live in isolated compartments of their making without inter-linkages with the big picture. This compartmentalized thinking is a cultural defect that ensures absence of connectivity with other multiple lateral tactical pictures. These small pictures if sensibly stitched together create whole which helps in formulation of a grand strategy.
In this volume, Indian Defence Review with the help of its contributors provides, a fairly integrated picture of the multi-dimensional threat that China poses, and offers many fresh alternatives. (jacket)
The multi-dimensional threat between 2011 and 2014 from China is real.
The threat from China has crept to level Orange for the past many years and the creeping invasion built over decades displays great features of stealth.
First, they invaded and forcibly occupied independent Tibet. Subsequently, to protect their flank in Tibet, the Chinese demand that Arunachal be part of China. Theoretically, even if India hands over conveniently termed southern Tibet, they will want to occupy whole of northeast to protect flanks of Arunachal.
China primarily feels threatened by existence of the union of India as it challenges their ambition of being the unilateral power leading Asia. Instead of integration of the citizenry and consolidation of different regions, our shortsighted politicians extend a helping hand to China and Pakistan by dividing Indians internally for vote-bank-politics.
Indians continue to live in isolated compartments of their making without inter-linkages with the big picture. This compartmentalized thinking is a cultural defect that ensures absence of connectivity with other multiple lateral tactical pictures. These small pictures if sensibly stitched together create whole which helps in formulation of a grand strategy.
In this volume, Indian Defence Review with the help of its contributors provides, a fairly integrated picture of the multi-dimensional threat that China poses, and offers many fresh alternatives. (jacket)
