The View from Across the Himalaya: The Trajectory of India’s Relationship with China
India has an obsession with China. Its leaders and residents endlessly compare their country with the giant neighbor to the north. China – Asia’s dragon – is less concerned with whether India’s development is better symbolized by a lumbering elephant or a slumbering – but awakening – tiger. The United States has announced a ‘Pivot to Asia,’ a thinly disguised attempt to contain the rise of these emerging powers. The rest of the globe places its bets as to whether it will be India or China that reigns supreme in the era of a post-American world.
