'With China's rise in South Asia, India's neighbours have greater demands'

Beyond the hard and more visible dimensions of trade, investment, or defence supplies, we show that China's engagements also operate on softer dimensions that shape the governance

China’s activities in South Asia are both visible and opaque, competing in a space India used to dominate. In an edited report that covers different aspects of Beijing’s engagement with South Asia, Constantino Xavier, senior fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress, and Jabin Jacob, associate professor, Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence, say India needs to build strategic capacity to better assess demand from neighbouring countries and then deliver on time. Aditi Phadnis caught up with them in an interview partly on email.

 

Your latest report “How China Engages South Asia: