Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka showcase the diversity of China’s engagement strategies in a very multidimensional region but also make clear that influencers across South Asia are learning from each other’s experiences with Chinese money and power.
Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka showcase the diversity of China’s engagement strategies in a very multidimensional region but also make clear that influencers across South Asia are learning from each other’s experiences with Chinese money and power.
New Delhi’s close relationship with Nepal, bound in history and culture, and the misperception about China’s relations with Nepal before 1950 have contributed to a skewed understanding of Sino-Nepali relations.
China expanding role in South Asia, region to be more contested in coming decades: US think tank
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China expanding role in South Asia, region to be more contested in coming decades: US think tank
PTI / Dec 17, 2020, 10:02 IST
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WASHINGTON: China s expanding role in South Asia is having a significant impact on the region s politics, economics and security of the region and the area is likely to become more contested in the coming decades, a top US thinktank has stated in its report.
The think-tank, US Institute of Peace, in the report publish on Wednesday, observed that grasping how China s involvement will shape the region will be essential to constructing a successful policy and advancing US interests and values.
China has embarked on a grand journey west. Officials in Beijing are driven by aspirations of leadership across their home continent of Asia, feelings of being hemmed in on their eastern flank by U.S. alliances, and their perception that opportunities await across Eurasia and the Indian Ocean. Along the way, their first stop is South Asia, which this report defines as comprising eight countries Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka along with the Indian Ocean (particularly the eastern portions but with implications for its entirety). China’s ties to the region are long-standing and date back well before the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949.