Issues and Strategies in a Managed Rivalry
2022; Oxford University Press; Volume: 24; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/isr/viac041
ISSN1521-9488
Autores Tópico(s)International Relations and Foreign Policy
ResumoThe China–India Rivalry in the Globalization Era provides a nuanced, theoretically driven, qualitative analysis of China's rivalry with India (see also Paul 2005; Ganguly and Thompson 2011). Contributors explore the extent to which globalization has tempered China's low-intensity, “managed” rivalry with India (Paul, 5). The China–India rivalry has been driven by several issues. Shankar examines territorial conflict, which has included the North-East Frontier Agency (later, the state of Arunachal Pradesh), the Aksai Chin Plateau, and Tibet. Pu focuses on competition over status, which has played out in Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, and the South China Sea. Ho discusses disputes concerning water, the most salient of which concerns the Brahmaputra River. Chen considers the extent to which the “quest” for resources in Africa and Central Asia has affected the rivalry. These issues have not impacted the rivalry equally, as the contributors recognize. The China–India rivalry is primarily rooted in competition over both territory and status, which are often difficult to disentangle. For example, is the competition over Tibet—a pivotal point of contention—better viewed as territorial, given that it involves questions of sovereignty, or is it better viewed as a component of a broader positional struggle? The volume leaves such questions unanswered. Nevertheless, there is agreement that competition over territory and position is more salient to the rivalry than contention over water and competition for resources in Africa and Central Asia.
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