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China and India are both important Asian great powers, often regarded as threshold superpowers. They both announced increases in defence expenditure for 1990 at a time when most countries were under pressure to make cuts. They are closer to Australia than either Japan or the United States. Their total population is almost two billion. They have the largest military forces in the Asia-Pacific region and a common interest in seeing an end to European military influence in Asia. They have developing economies and are close neighbours. They share the world’s longest stretch of disputed border and are not yet agreed on how to divide the region between them. But their historical relationship over the past two thousand years has been one of friendly though not close cultural exchanges, without hostility, rivalry or war.
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Klintworth, G. (1992). Chinese Perspectives on India as a Great Power. In: Babbage, R., Gordon, S. (eds) India’s Strategic Future. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21885-1_5
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