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The strategic environment in South Asia and Northeast Asia has four nuclear weapon states, of which three (China, India and Pakistan) share problems by facts of geography, history, and ideological and power competition. China seeks to determine the contours and shape of future events in the region, with its economic and military power most likely to influence the region. India looks at economic growth based on its core values and security, and a peaceful environment, to assume its rightful place
in the comity of nations. Pakistan, a revisionist state, and now a haven and nursery for terrorists, is in competition to emerge as a dominant power in the region and continues to follow policies to destabilise the region, even at the cost of hurting its own long-term national interest. Besides the direct dynamics, external influences impact the states in different ways, and all combined, these determine the strategic stability environment.
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