China and South Asia, Changing Regional Dynamics, Development and Power Play

Edited By Rajiv Ranjan, Guo Changgang

ISBN 9780367428297

Published September 30, 2021 by Routledge India

304 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations

Book Description

This book looks at the changing dynamics and regional power play between China and South Asia. It explores crucial issues such as China–Pakistan Economic Corridor and the changing nature of China–India relations; China’s trident approach in South Asia and its rising influence in the region; the responses of small states to rising China; China’s twenty-first-century Belt and Road Initiative; China and India; China’s rise and the USA’s security policy vis-à-vis India; the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and regional security; and Russia’s ‘Pivot to the East’ and its impact on the Asia-Pacific region. The volume brings together the views of scholars from China, South Asia and beyond on different aspects of China and South Asia engagement, including regional politics, connectivity, infrastructure and development projects, power politics, economy, ideology and culture. The chapters offer insights into trends and challenges within China’s economic and security environment as impacted by globalization, regional interests and the demands of cooperation. They present critical, comprehensive and expert analyses of China’s engagement with South Asia by covering historical, sociological, political, cultural, economic and strategic factors while including perspectives from individual countries.

This volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of Chinese studies, politics and international relations, South Asian studies, foreign policy, diplomacy, security and strategic studies and political studies, as well as to those in media, policymakers, bureaucrats, diplomats and think tanks.

Table of Contents

Forewordby S D Muni

1. Introduction: China and South Asia in the 21stCentury

Rajiv Ranjan

PART I: Politics and Strategy

2. CPEC and Changing Dynamics of China–India Relations

Saeed Shafqat

3. China’sTrishulaApproach in South Asia: Challenges to Balancing the End Game

Mahendra P Lama

4. Coping with Rising China: Responses of the Small States of South Asia

Robayt Khondoker and Rashed Uz Zaman

5. Cooperation or Competition in China–India Relations: A Quantitative Analysis of Debate

Zhang Shulan, Xu Weidan, Huo Wenle

6. Security Environment in South Asia: The Role of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

Amjad Abbas Khan

Part II: Belt and Road Initiative

7. China’s 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road and its Influence on the Development of South Asia: A Geopolitical Perspective

Asantha Senevirathna

8. Belt and Road Initiative: Changing Dynamics of Development in South Asia

Atia Ali Kazmi

9. Belt and Road Initiative: Chinese Normative Power in South Asia

Federico Tombari

10. Bangladesh–China Maritime Security Cooperation: A Search for New Opportunities under the 'Belt and Road' Initiative

Noor Mohammad Sarker

Part III: Ideology, Media and Culture

11. The Impact of Sino-Soviet Spilt on the Left Politics in Pakistan

Muhammad Qasim Sodhar

12. Image of China in Afghan Media

Hazrat Bahar

13. Prospects of China–India Bilateral Cooperation in Cultural Industry in a New Stage of the 21st Century

Wan Jiqiong

14. Development of Cultural Eco-tourism in Gilgit-Baltistan: Opportunities and Challenges in the Wake of CPEC

Naila Masood Ahmad

Part IV: Great Power Politics

15. Anticipating the China Challenge: China’s Rise and the United States’ Security Policy vis-à-vis India

Kashish Parpiani

16. China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the Indian Ocean Balance

Vivek Mishra

17. Russia’s “Pivot to the East” and its Impact on Asia-Pacific Region and South Asia

Alexey A. Semenov

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