Sino-Indian Relations in a New Perspective

Snehalata Panada

Snehalata Panda is professor of political science at Behrampur University, Behrampur, Orissa. She has authored seven books and forty research articles which are published in refereed national and international journals. read more

Policies of the developed world continue to affect the domestic as well as foreign policies of China and India in the post-Cold War period. The US war against terrorism in Afghanistan has drawn China closer to the US. This has set new parameters for Sino-Indian relationship. Economic reasons dominated the relations among nations in the 1990s, but the scare of terrorism has forged a global coalition and middle powers have few options to choose independent policies.