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The headline of any assessment of South Asian politics is the deadlock between India and Pakistan which misses the other end of the story i.e. geo-strategic bonhomie between China and Pakistan in the region. Unpacking this story of coming together of China and Pakistan to counter India’s influence in the region have backfired on China to see an equal but more implicit bonding between US and India in the region. Therefore China’s present policy is to rhetorically neutralize its relations with Pakistan and come rhetorically closer to India to delink the Indo-US strategies in South Asia.
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