SINO-SOUTH ASIAN RELATIONS: EVOLVING TRENDS

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1. Introduction 2. Sino-South Asian Relations: The Current Context 3. he Developments in Sino-Indian Relations: Underlying Reasons, Nature and Dynamics 4. The Developments in Sino-Indian Relations: Implications for the Regional Countries 5. Sino-South Asian Relations: The Role of Extra-Regional Power 6. Conclusion

SINO-SOUTH ASIAN RELATIONS: EVOLVING TRENDS

Author: A. K. M. Abdus Sabur

DOI Link: DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.56888/BIISSj2005v26n3a1

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South Asia and China are in the process of a qualitative change in their relations that has generated certain degree of uncertainty and even a greater degree of dynamism in the regional developments. China is displaying a distinct unwillingness to be entangled in interstate conflicts in South Asia. Instead, it is encouraging the regional countries to concentrate their efforts on the reconstruction of their economies and societies, and move away from conflict to a course of cooperation. This has created pressure on South Asian countries to change themselves in two crucial ways. There is pressure to resolve or, at least, manage regional conflicts properly and revitalise the process of mutually beneficial co-operation. Secondly, there is also pressure on them to concentrate their efforts on the reconstruction of their economies so as to make them attractive to the outside world as partners for cooperation.

BANGLADESH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES

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