World Scientific Publishing Company Smart Diplomacy: Exploring China-India Synergy

From the Back Cover This book explores the diplomatic, political, strategic, and ideological cross-currents in the fragile but promising state-to-state relationship between China and India. Set in a geopolitical context ten years after the two Asian neighbours had agreed to fashion a Strategic and Cooperative Partnership for Peace and Prosperity, the analysis is focused on the promise as well as the portents. Looking ahead, the author envisions a sunrise idea of Sino-Indian Smart Zone as a possible post-modern scenario. The aim of the book is to alert international diplomats, policy makers, academic scholars, and general readers alike to the inevitable importance of a potential China India paradigm in Asia. This is considered significant at a time when global political attention in Asia is focused mainly on the challenges in the US-China and China Japan relations. The book is written with a journalist's precision and is laced with the flavour of political research. Product Description "Delving into the complexities of China-India relations, Mr Suryanarayana has analysed, with his characteristic incisiveness, the emerging signs of diplomatic synergy between the two Asian neighbours. The book bears the stamp of insightful and thorough research." Professor Tan Tai Yong Executive Vice-President (Academic Affairs), Yale-Nus College, Singapore (also, former Director of the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore) "The dynamics between China and India has been one of the more complex bilateral relations in the 20th century. As Beijing and Delhi rise on the world stage in the 21st century, their relationship has also become a very consequential one. P S Suryanarayana, who has closely followed the evolution of the ties between the two countries over the last many years, explores the fascinating possibilities for an expansive Sino–Indian partnership and the broader global implications of 'smart diplomacy' between the two Asian giants." Professor C Raja Mohan Founder Director Carnegie India and author of Samudra Manthan: Sino–Indian Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific This book explores the diplomatic, political, strategic, and ideological cross-currents in the fragile but promising state-to-state relationship between China and India. Set in a geopolitical context ten years after the two Asian neighbours had agreed to fashion a Strategic and Cooperative Partnership for Peace and Prosperity, the analysis is focused on the promise as well as the portents. Looking ahead, the author envisions a sunrise idea of Sino–Indian Smart Zone as a possible post-modern scenario.