For many years now, Indian engagement with China has been a frozen conflict. After border violence at Doklam and Galwan, the Indian approach was that economic engagement is conditional on decency at the border. In September 2021, the book Rising to the China Challenge: Winning through Strategic Patience and Economic Growth, by Gautam Bambawale, Vijay Kelkar, R A Mashelkar, Ganesh Natarajan, Ajit Ranade, and Ajay Shah, was published by Rupa Publications. In essence that book argued: (a) In the short term, India was too weak to confront China alone, what was needed was a coalition with the great democracies of
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