India: The View from Peking Communist China's Strategy Toward India

Abstract

The basic question is how large a place does India have in China's foreign policy and what will that policy toward India be in the future. Sino- Indian relations have been examined in order to determine the most plausible objectives sought by China's strategy toward India. The United States, with no direct interest in the Indian subcontinent, other than keeping it from becoming a cockpit for great power conflict, has the opportunity to obtain an accommodation with China while the Soviet Union pursues a policy of containment of Peking. The unanswered question is the eventual cost to the United States of abdicating to the Soviet Union the responsibility for the major strategic military role around the periphery of China.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 13, 1971
Accession Number
AD0765597

Entities

People

  • Charles P. Dribben

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Asia
  • Boundaries
  • Continents
  • Department Of State
  • Foreign Policy
  • Foreign Relations
  • Governments
  • International Relations
  • New York
  • Security
  • South Asia
  • Treaties
  • United Nations
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Asian Economic Studies
  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Educational Psychology