India China Relations

India and China had a glorious history of cultural and material exchanges, which developed into friendship and subsequently into camaraderie during first half of the twentieth century when both India and China fought western imperialism. Owing to serious misconceptions and misjudgements the relations remained under the shadow of animosities and mutual distrust for over three decades until Rajiv Gandhi's China visit in 1988. After 62 years of diplomatic relations between the two, there is a certain maturity in the relations, as both are sharing new responsibilities in the stupendously changing global architecture. India-China Relations: Future Perspectives is a collection of eighteen essays by eminent Indian and Chinese scholars, diplomats and political personalities, who look at the complex and multi-layered relationship from different perspectives covering various domains such as civilizational dialogue through history, the 1950s brotherhood, the border, and various other issues pertaining to education, agriculture, security, defense and economic complementarities etc. The complex and multi-layered character of the relationship makes it difficult to define as an adversarial or competitive, for there has been cooperation at various levels between the two, such as climate change and many other multilateral forums like G20 and BRICS. Notwithstanding the cooperation, there have been incremental yet cautious approaches towards cooperation in various fields from both the sides. As the global economic and political scenario is undergoing a tremendous change, and its shift to Asia is visible, the contributors feel that India and China need to handle the hypersensitive issues with care and tap the existing complementarities appropriately, or else the Asian century would not only be a distant dream, but could also endanger the peace and stability of the region and the world. List of Contributors ZHANG YAN is Ambassador of The People's Republic of China to India, New Delhi.BR DEEPAK is Associate Professor, Centre of Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is also Managing Editor, Think India Quarterly.WANG BANGWEI is Professor and Dean of Oriental Studies of the Department of East Asian Languages, Peking University, Beijing, China.SUDHEENDRA KULKARNI was Media Advisor to former Prime MinisterAtal Behari Vajpayee, also former national secretary of the Bhartiya JanataParty (BJP), he is currently Chairman of the Observer Research Foundation, Mumbai.CHENG RUISHENG is former Ambassador of The People's Republic of China to India and Myanmar. He is currently Advisor to China-India Eminent Persons' Forum.DP TRIPATHI, Editor-in-Chief, Think India Quarterly, is General Secretary and Chief Spokesperson of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).MA JIALI is Professor, China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, Beijing, China.AMITABH MATTOO, former Vice-Chancellor of University of Jammu, is currently Professor of International Politics, School of International Studies,Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.AN SHUANGHONG is Professor of Education, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China.P. STOBDAN is Senior Fellow at Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi.SHENG RONG is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, China Agriculture University, Beijing, China.RAJIV NAYAN is Senior Research Associate at Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi.RN DAS, Additional Director, Lok Sabha Secretariat, is currently working as Senior Fellow at Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi.YANG XIAOPING is Doctoral Fellow at Institute of International Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.C. RAJA MOHAN is Strategic Affairs Editor of The Indian Express, NewDelhi and Adjunct Professor of South Asian Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.