![]() Both the countries had newly emerged after a long struggle against oppression from Western imperialism. The Sino Indian relations during the 1950s went through a substantial degree of changes. That pattern has recently been reinforced. Both India and Pakistan, often belying their declaratory policies, bandwagoned with external protectors with a view to advancing their conflicting interests. ![]() In the 'Indo-Pacific', that rearrangement was shaped by three key developments: decolonisation of European empires and the Partition of British-India into successor states founded on the bases of mutually-inconsistent ideational rationales, dominant-systemic polarisation along a capitalist-vs.-communist diarchy, and the renascence of China as both a communist and nationalist power seeking strategic autonomy within both the Soviet-led communist bloc, and the adversarial postWar geopolitical architecture being fashioned by the superpowers. While the current strategic landscape bears particular characteristics, its evolution is rooted in post-1945 systemic restructuring. Contemporary International Security Studies literature relating to geopolitical turbulence emanating from systemic transitional fluidity affecting Southern Asia highlights Sino-US competition, Sino-Indian rivalry and Indo-Pakistani adversarial tensions. ![]()
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