India as an Interested Third Player in the Sino-US Power Dispute
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https://doi.org/10.5380/cg.v9i1.70693Abstract
In 2007, India and the United States signed an important document of nuclear cooperation, which meant the recognition of the Indian nuclear status by the world's largest power. India has become a regional power with global ambitions and has fundamental importance for the balance of power in the region which, after the advancement of the power of the “Middle Empire”, has been affected and tilts towards this. To what extent is India willing to cooperate with the United States to curb the expansion of Chinese power and influence on the Asian continent? Another substantive question is: is the United States willing to strengthen and support India to its ultimate consequences in this policy of Chinese containment? Can India and China cooperate and substantially alter the Asian power order? Our work aims to analyze these complex and still unclear issues, as their developments are in full force. To this end, it will be divided into four parts plus an introduction and conclusion. In the first, we will present the geopolitical picture of the regions in which India and China – South and East Asia – are inserted; In the second, we will analyze US-India relations focusing on nuclear partnership and cooperation for Chinese containment; In the third part, we will examine the challenges and possible scenarios of the issue. Finally, we will have a fourth part in which we will consider the possibility of cooperation between India and China through the Belt and Road Initiative.
Keywords: India; United States of America; Containment; Nuclear Cooperation.
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