After violent border clashes between Chinese and Indian troops resonated high and wide around the world last June, the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and the US presidential campaign diluted most non-China-related news spreading from Asia. Nonetheless, the situation on the Himalayan border and tensions between the two Asian powers are still far from resolved. The growing economic and geopolitical competition between New Delhi and Beijing, the pandemic’s disruptive effects, as well as the role of silent “third” players with their own agenda in the region raise questions as to how relations between the two countries are likely to evolve. What are the stakes at play? How are two radically different political and economic systems trying to stand out in the “Asian century”? With which consequences on a regional and global level?
ISPI China Programme
ISPI India Desk
Independent Researcher
King’s College London and Observer Research Foundation
University of Sydney and SIPRI
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
Independent Journalist
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University of Trento and ISPI
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
Senior Fellow and Research Scholar at the Paul Tsai China Center, Yale University Law School
Associate Professor and O’Hanley Faculty Scholar, Syracuse University
King’s College London