The India-China Rivalry
by
Robert D. Kaplan
As
the world moves into the second decade of the 21st century, a new power rivalry
is taking shape between India and China, Asia's two behemoths in terms of
territory, population and richness of civilization. India's recent successful
launch of a long-range missile able to hit Beijing and Shanghai with nuclear
weapons is the latest sign of this development.
This is a rivalry born completely of
high-tech geopolitics, creating a core dichotomy between two powers whose own
geographical expansion patterns throughout history have rarely overlapped or
interacted with each other. Despite the limited war fought between the two
countries on their Himalayan border 50 years ago, this competition has
relatively little long-standing historical or ethnic animosity behind it.
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