By Dr Subhash Kapila
27-Apr-2015
India’s natural power pre-eminence in the Indian Subcontinent has always been a strategic eyesore for China as it emerged as a Communist monolith in 1949 and commenced flexing its military muscles.
Academics have been prone to surmise wrongly that China relations with India took a turn for the worse only after the China-India armed conflict of 1962.
China’s Grand Strategy towards India right from the beginning was determined by three main considerations. The first was to hem-in India within the subcontinental confines by removing Tibet’s strategic significance as a buffer state keeping China away from the Indian borders. The second was to keep India militarily busy in tackling insurgencies fomented by China in India’s North Eastern States. The third was to play ‘balance of power’ politics in the Indian Subcontinent by building up Pakistan as the regional spoiler state and creation of Chinese military client states on India’s remaining peripheries.
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