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Asia Between China and India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Tarique Niazi
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Relations between China and India have long been marked by an ambivalence that has led some observers to describe them as “neither friends nor foes.” In the late 1940s, when China and India won freedom from imperial powers and established new governments, their relations were warm. From the late 1950s, however, relations deteriorated, notably from the Dalai Lama's 1959 flight from Tibet and his refuge in India. This was followed by a succession of events - the1962 border war, Beijing's nuclear tests in 1964, Indian nuclear tests in 1974, Sino-Pakistan defense cooperation from the 1970s, Indian nuclear tests in 1998 again - that further strained their ties. Since the 1980s and 1990s, when China and India respectively embarked upon economic reforms, their strategic competition was intensified by a scramble for economic and energy resources.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 5 , May 2006, e11
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