India's China Challenge (A Journey through China's Rise and What It Means for India)

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About the Book This book tells the story of a complex political relationship, and how China - and its leading opinion-makers- view India. It looks at the economic dimensions and cultural connect, and the internal political and social transformations in China that continue to shape both the country's future and its relations with India. p> About the Author Ananth Krishnan first moved to China in the summer of 2008. In the years that followed, he had a ringside view of the country's remarkable transformation. He has reported from Beijing for more than a decade, for the India Today and The Hindu. This has given him an opportunity that few Indians have had - to travel the length and breadth of the country, beyond the glitzy skyscrapers of Shanghai and the grand avenues of Beijing that greet most tourists, to the heart of China's rise.

This book is Krishnan's attempt at unpacking India's China challenge, which is fourfold: the political challenge of dealing with a one-party state that is looking to Increasingly shape global institutions; the military challenge of managing an unresolved border, the economic challenge of both learning from China's unique growth story and dealing with its growing global influence; and the conceptual challenge of changing how we think about and engage with our most important neighbour.

Introduction FIRST MOVED TO CHINA in the summer of 2008. My hope was Ito stay the summer and return with, at the most, a smattering of the language. This rather modest plan turned into an unexpected decade-long journey, which gave me a ringside seat of the country's phenomenal rise. I moved to Beijing in 2009 and lived there until August 2018, working as a reporter for The Hindu and then for India Today. My job gave me a privileged opportunity to travel the length and breadth of the country, beyond the glitzy skyscrapers of Shanghai and the grand avenues of Beijing that greet most visitors.

I left for India in August 2018, I resolved never to write a book about China. There were two reasons for this. First, things changed so fast in the country that events often overtook even what I wrote for India Today, a weekly magazine. Where would that leave a book? Moreover, ten years may be just a blip in the life of a country. This is especially true for one with a history as long as China's.

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