Why are India and China not able to develop long-term stable and friendly relations? While trying to answer this question, this book provides a new perspective for understanding the relations between the two nations by highlighting the asymmetry of the threat perceptions between them. The major issues of India-China relations, including the nuclear issue, the boundary problem, the Tibet issue, regional competition and cooperation, and China-India relations in the global context, are further examined with an analytical approach.

• Preface


• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• 1. The Nuclear Dimension of China-India Relation


• 2. The Tibet Issue in Sino-Indian Relations


• 3. The Sino-Indian Border Problem


• 4. Regional Competition and Cooperation


• 5. China-India Relations in the Global Context


• 6. Concluding Remarks


• Bibliography


• Index


• About the Author

Tien-sze Fang is Assistant Professor at the Center for General Education at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.