Podcast | Pak Fixation Won’t Help, India Should Engage with China

Unfortunately, India has remained fixated on Pakistan, even as our economic heft has multiplied, says Raghav Bahl

In the late 1940s, India and China won independence from colonial rule. While the trajectories of their respective freedom movements were quite different, there was one remarkable similarity. Both broke up into two enemy nations apiece, China/Taiwan and India/Pakistan. For seven decades now, these pairs of estranged siblings have stayed implacable foes.

But as China closed in on Superpower status, it de-hyphenated from Taiwan without lessening its hostility. China is now America’s global rival, not Taiwan’s principal adversary.