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India’s economic rise in the last decade has prompted China to seek greater cooperation with India. The Chinese strategy promises that India will profit from the wide-ranging economic engagement and importantly blunts any perceived support to the US in the containment of China. Clearly, for China, any ‘rebalancing’ in the Asia Pacific is upsetting and therefore India’s strategic partnerships with the United States, Japan or Vietnam are keenly observed. As a result, there is intense Chinese pressure on India to cooperate on its terms, for example China’s One Road One Belt project. China also believes that it is in an advantageous economic and military position vis-à-vis India and therefore any perceived aggression from the Indian side, such as overt strategic engagements with the US, quickly prompts China to create sub-level crises so as to weaken India’s claims to the border or create uncertainty in the minds of the leadership.
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