China and India’s Bumpy Road to An “Asian Century”

HEADLINE TRANSLATION: Zhou Bo: China is not a newcomer to the Indian Ocean, India needs to adapt to China's "South Asian presence"

China and India must find ways of tolerating each other’s military rise to ensure the dawn of an “Asian Century.” 

So argued Zhou Bo, a former official in China’s Ministry of Defense and currently a researcher at the Center for Strategic and Security Studies at Tsinghua University. He delivered the keynote address at a seminar on China’s relations with South Asia at London’s King’s College.

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