For students of international relations, China and India’s inability to get along in at least the first half of 21st century has been something of a puzzle. It is not about just being neighbours with a broken fence, though there is that too. There is no doubt that the two countries’ economic heft is asymmetrical, India being far smaller than China. But it has not helped that China has been as touchy about India on several counts, possibly more than India has been about its northern neighbour.
Commentators have often tried to analyse this puzzle through political and strategic prisms.
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