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Vijay Gokhale’s paper on China’s India policy: Invaluable treatise fills critical gap in decoding Chinese motivations

China is India’s most comprehensive and serious challenge. As India rises in the same geography, this relationship will be consequential in setting the trajectory and determining the pace. Gokhale finds that China’s India policy has always been shaped by exogenous factors, namely China’s view of the larger great power strategic triangle of China, the Soviet Union (later Russia), and the US.