In a 45-minute interview with The Wire‘s Karan Thapar to mark the launch of his book India Versus China: Why They Are Not Friends, Kanti Bajpai laid out four reasons why the two countries are unfriendly to each other.
Bajpai is Director, Centre on Asia and Globalisation and Wilmar Professor of Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore.
According to Bajpai, the first is their perceptions of each other. The second is their territorial claims and perimeters. The third is their strategic partnerships, where they tend to be on different, if not opposed, sides. The fourth is the asymmetry of power between them, which is steadily increasing.