Suhasini Haidar reviews India Versus China: Why They Are Not Friends, by Kanti Bajpai
The HinduA year after the People’s Liberation Army began to amass troops at the Line of Actual Control, an act which led to blood being spilt for the first time in 45 years on the India-China boundary at Galwan, a slew of books has put the spotlight on the bilateral relationship. On the downslide Kanti Bajpai’s book India Versus China: Why They Are Not Friends attempts to answer the question, with the help of four Ps: Perceptions, Perimeters, other Partnerships and Power asymmetry. Realistic picture The author provides a fairly realistic picture of China’s growing arrogance and unilateral aggressions, especially in the past decade, but concludes that the two conflagrations between India and China in 1962 and 2020 are more likely to have been caused by Chinese misperceptions and overreactions to India’s actions. The prognosis from Bajpai’s book, as a result, is bleak, and as suggested by its title, would mean that India and China are not, and cannot be friends. India Versus China: Why They Are Not Friends ; Kanti Bajpai, Juggernaut, ₹599.
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