Stability in a Secondary Strategic Direction: China and the Border Dispute with India After 1962
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Fravel, Maris Taylor
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May 2020
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Routledge Handbook of China–India Relations
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Routledge
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Fravel, M. Taylor. "Stability in a Secondary Strategic Direction: China and the Border Dispute with India After 1962." Routledge Handbook of China–India Relations, edited by Kanti Bajpai et al., Routledge, 2020.
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Abstract
This chapter reviews China’s approach to its disputed border with India after the war
between the two countries in 1962. China’s approach has emphasized maintaining
stability on its southwestern frontier, defined as preventing the escalation of armed
conflict on the border and maintaining a dominant position in the dispute it enjoyed after
the war. For China, its dispute with India has always been a strategic secondary direction
and not the primary focus of its military strategy. Dominance on the border and deterring
Indian challenges form the basis of stability from China’s standpoint.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
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