''China's Strategy of Containing India''
http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=vi...&language_id=1
A fairly comprehensive analysis of the issues and developments in this part of the world, and worth a read.
It is somewhat interesting that while Americans and Europeans discuss international developments in a post Cold War world in a context that seems to imply transcending traditional balance of power politics and its focus on state actors, China is pursuing what appears to be classic balance of power politics regarding its neighbors and strategic rivals. China perceives itself as surrounded by potential enemies (principally Russia, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam and India), and seeks to upset any containment strategy on the part of these countries and the US which might bring them closer, while at the same time pursuing a containment strategy as regards India.
I imagine Chinese planners must have to note that while China is surrounded by a number of major first and second tier military and economic powers, Chinese containment of India has to rely on states like Nepal, Sri Lanka, Burma and Bangladesh. Of the states bordering India other than China itself, only Pakistan, a nuclear state and supporter of terrorist movements in India, is remotely a threat to India.
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