Where China Meets India

Author : Thant Myint-U.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Burma
ISBN : OCLC:977325709

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Where China Meets India by Thant Myint-U. Pdf

Author : Thant Myint-U
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781466801271

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Where China Meets India by Thant Myint-U Pdf

Thant Myint-U's Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching, timely book about the remote region that is suddenly a geopolitical center of the world. From their very beginnings, China and India have been walled off from each other: by the towering summits of the Himalayas, by a vast and impenetrable jungle, by hostile tribes and remote inland kingdoms stretching a thousand miles from Calcutta across Burma to the upper Yangtze River. Soon this last great frontier will vanish—the forests cut down, dirt roads replaced by superhighways, insurgencies crushed—leaving China and India exposed to each other as never before. This basic shift in geography—as sudden and profound as the opening of the Suez Canal—will lead to unprecedented connections among the three billion people of Southeast Asia and the Far East. What will this change mean? Thant Myint-U is in a unique position to know. Over the past few years he has traveled extensively across this vast territory, where high-speed trains and gleaming new shopping malls are now coming within striking distance of the last far-flung rebellions and impoverished mountain communities. And he has explored the new strategic centrality of Burma, where Asia's two rising, giant powers appear to be vying for supremacy. At once a travelogue, a work of history, and an informed look into the future, Where China Meets India takes us across the fast-changing Asian frontier, giving us a masterful account of the region's long and rich history and its sudden significance for the rest of the world.

Author : Thant Myint-U
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571277780

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Where China Meets India by Thant Myint-U Pdf

China and India have always been seperated not only by the Himalayas, but also by the impenetrable jungle and remote areas that once stretched across Burma. Now this last great frontier will likely vanish - forests cut down, dirt roads replaced by superhighways, insurgencies ended - leaving China and India exposed to each other as never before. This basic shift in geography is as profound as the opening of the Suez Canal and is taking place just as the centre of the world's economy moves to the East. Thant Myint-U has travelled extensively across this vast territory, where high-speed trains and gleaming shopping malls now sit alongside the last remaining forests and impoverished mountain communities. In Where China Meets India he explores the new strategic centrality of Burma, the country of his ancestry, where Asia's two rising giant powers - China and India - appear to be vying for supremacy. Part travelogue, part history, part investigation, Where China Meets India takes us across the fast-changing Asian frontier, giving us a masterful account of the region's long and rich history and its sudden significance for the rest of the world. Thant Myint-U is the author of The River of Lost Footsteps and has written articles for the New York Times, the Washington Post and the New Statesman. He has worked alongside Kofi Annan at the UN's Department of Political Affairs and currently works as a special consultant to the Burmese government.

Author : T.V. Paul
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626166011

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The China-India Rivalry in the Globalization Era by T.V. Paul Pdf

As the aspirations of the two rising Asian powers collide, the China-India rivalry is likely to shape twenty-first-century international politics in the region and far beyond. This volume by T.V. Paul and an international group of leading scholars examines whether the rivalry between the two countries that began in the 1950s will intensify or dissipate in the twenty-first century. The China-India relationship is important to analyze because past experience has shown that when two rising great powers share a border, the relationship is volatile and potentially dangerous. India and China’s relationship faces a number of challenges, including multiple border disputes that periodically flare up, division over the status of Tibet and the Dalai Lama, the strategic challenge to India posed by China's close relationship with Pakistan, the Chinese navy's greater presence in the Indian Ocean, and the two states’ competition for natural resources. Despite these irritants, however, both countries agree on issues such as global financial reforms and climate change and have much to gain from increasing trade and investment, so there are reasons for optimism as well as pessimism. The contributors to this volume answer the following questions: What explains the peculiar contours of this rivalry? What influence does accelerated globalization, especially increased trade and investment, have on this rivalry? What impact do US-China competition and China’s expanding navy have on this rivalry? Under what conditions will it escalate or end? The China-India Rivalry in the Globalization Era will be of great interest to students, scholars, and policymakers concerned with Indian and Chinese foreign policy and Asian security.

Author : Eyck Freymann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781684176281

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One Belt One Road by Eyck Freymann Pdf

In 2013, Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced a campaign for national rejuvenation. The One Belt One Road initiative, or OBOR, has become the largest infrastructure program in history. Nearly every Chinese province, city, major business, bank, and university have been mobilized to serve it, spending hundreds of billions of dollars overseas building ports and railroads, laying fiber cables, and launching satellites. Using a trove of Chinese sources, author Eyck Freymann argues these infrastructure projects are a sideshow. OBOR is primarily a campaign to restore an ancient model in which foreign emissaries paid tribute to the Chinese emperor, offering gifts in exchange for political patronage. Xi sees himself as a sort of modern-day emperor, determined to restore China’s past greatness. Many experts assume that Xi’s nakedly neo-imperial scheme couldn’t possibly work. Freymann shows how wrong they are. China isn’t preying on victims, Freymann argues. It’s attracting willing partners—including Western allies—from Latin America to Southeast Asia to the Persian Gulf. Even in countries where OBOR megaprojects fail, Freymann finds that political leaders still want closer ties with China. Freymann tells the monumental story of Xi’s project on the global stage. Drawing on primary documents in five languages, interviews with senior officials, and on-the-ground case studies from Malaysia to Greece, Russia to Iran, Freymann pulls back the veil of propaganda about OBOR, giving readers a page-turning world tour of the burgeoning Chinese empire, a guide for understanding China’s motives and tactics, and clear recommendations for how the West can compete.

Author : Bjorn-Oliver Magsig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317596783

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International Water Law and the Quest for Common Security by Bjorn-Oliver Magsig Pdf

The world’s freshwater supplies are increasingly threatened by rapidly increasing demand and the impacts of global climate change, but current approaches to transboundary water management are unsustainable and may threaten future global stability and international security. The absence of law in attempts to address this issue highlights the necessity for further understanding from the legal perspective. This book provides a fresh conceptualisation of water security, developing an operational methodology for identifying the four core elements of water security which must be addressed by international law: availability; access; adaptability; and ambit. The analysis of the legal framework of transboundary freshwater management based on this contemporary understanding of water security reveals the challenges and shortcomings of the current legal regime. In order to address these shortcomings, the present mindset of prevailing rigidity and state-centrism is challenged by examining how international legal instruments could be crafted to advance a more flexible and common approach towards transboundary water interaction. The concept of considering water security as a matter of ‘regional common concern’ is introduced to help international law play a more prominent role in addressing the challenges of global water insecurity. Ways for implementing such an approach are proposed and analysed by looking at international hydropolitics in Himalayan Asia. The book analyses transboundary water interaction as a ‘case study’ for advancing public international law in order to fulfil its responsibility of promoting international peace and security.

Author : Grace Lin
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316052603

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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Newbery Honor Book) by Grace Lin Pdf

A Time Magazine 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time selection!​ A Reader’s Digest Best Children’s Book of All Time​! This stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel to Starry River of the Sky and the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man on the Moon, who knows the answers to all of life's questions. Inspired by these stories, Minli sets off on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man on the Moon to ask him how she can change her family's fortune. She encounters an assorted cast of characters and magical creatures along the way, including a dragon who accompanies her on her quest for the ultimate answer. Grace Lin, author of the beloved Year of the Dog and Year of the Rat returns with a wondrous story of adventure, faith, and friendship. A fantasy crossed with Chinese folklore, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a timeless story reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Her beautiful illustrations, printed in full-color, accompany the text throughout. Once again, she has created a charming, engaging book for young readers.

Author : Renaud Egreteau,Larry Jagan
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789971696733

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Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma by Renaud Egreteau,Larry Jagan Pdf

Soldiers and Diplomacy addresses the key question of the ongoing role of the military in BurmaÍs foreign policy. The authors, a political scientist and a former top Asia editor for the BBC, provide a fresh perspective on BurmaÍs foreign and security policies, which have shifted between pro-active diplomacies of neutralism and non-alignment, and autarkical policies of isolation and xenophobic nationalism. They argue that important elements of continuity underlie BurmaÍs striking postcolonial policy changes and contrasting diplomatic practices. Among the defining factors here are the formidable dominance of the Burmese armed forces over state structure, the enduring domestic political conundrum and the peculiar geography of a country located at the crossroads of India, China and Southeast Asia. Egreteau and Jagan argue that the Burmese military still has the tools needed to retain their praetorian influence over the countryÍs foreign policy in the post-junta context of the 2010s. For international policymakers, potential foreign investors and BurmaÍs immediate neighbors, this will have strong implications in terms of the countryÍs foreign policy approach.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : OSU:32435087131140

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Special Warfare by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alex J. Bellamy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191083785

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East Asia's Other Miracle by Alex J. Bellamy Pdf

East Asia, until recently the scene of widespread blood-letting, has achieved relative peace. A region that at the height of the Cold War had accounted for around eighty percent of the world's mass atrocities has experienced such a decline in violence that by 2015 it accounted for less than five percent. This book explains East Asia's 'other' miracle and asks whether it is merely a temporary blip in the historical cycle or the dawning of a new, and more peaceful, era for the region. It argues that the decline of mass atrocities in East Asia resulted from four interconnected factors: the consolidation of states and emergence of responsible sovereigns; the prioritization of economic development through trade; the development of norms and habits of multilateralism, and transformations in the practice of power politics. Particular attention is paid to North Korea and Myanmar, countries whose experience has bucked regional trends largely because these states have not succeeded in consolidating themselves to the point where they no longer depend on violence to survive. Although the region faces several significant future challenges, this book argues that the much reduced incidence of mass atrocities in East Asia is likely to be sustained into the foreseeable future.

Author : B. R. Deepak
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8176482455

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India-China Relations in the First Half of the 20th Century by B. R. Deepak Pdf

Based On Chinese And Indian Sources, Sheds Light On A Phase Of Indian Freedom Struggle1 From 1905 To 1947. Also A Study Of Synergy Of Cultures Of India And China And The Interface Between The Two Oldest Civilizations Of The World. Has Six Chapters And A Useful Appendix.

Author : Mira Sinha Bhattacharjea
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015054152106

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China, the World, and India by Mira Sinha Bhattacharjea Pdf

The Author Deplores The Narrow-Minded Analysis Of 1962 And The India-China Relations By The Government And In Mainstream Indian Writings. 1962 Was Not, She Insists, A Confrontation Only Over Territory. Nor Can It Be Explained By Accusing The Chinese Of Betrayal Or Of A Stab In The Back . Much More, She Argues, Was At Stake In 1962. Accordingly, She Urges That 1962 Should Be Located Within The Great Global Debate Of Those Years On War, Peace And Human Future. The Outcome Of Which Was To Decide, As It Did, The Future Status And Influence Of India And China In The World.

Author : Gondker Narayana Rao
Publisher : Bombay ; New York : Asia Publishing House
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : China
ISBN : UCAL:B4518461

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The India-China Border; a Reappraisal by Gondker Narayana Rao Pdf

Author : Zhiyu Shi,Dr. Swaran Singh,Reena Marwah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1604978066

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On China by India by Zhiyu Shi,Dr. Swaran Singh,Reena Marwah Pdf

"This highly original book shifts our attention away from the preoccupations of the U.S. to India and from conventional social science and area studies perspectives to civilizational sensibilities. In a series of searching essays by well-informed Indian scholars, China's rise appears in a fresh light. Rather than seeking to bend China's experience only to the impatient expectations of secular liberalism, this important book reminds us of the imagined affinities that a civilizational understanding of self and other creates in India for China and the empathetic patience it engenders. Our understanding of China is greatly enriched by new insights that this broader vision yields." - Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies, Cornell University

Author : Harold Robert Isaacs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : China
ISBN : LCCN:64007499

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Images of Asia by Harold Robert Isaacs Pdf