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...decades since, for much of which India was close to China's erstwhile communist rival, the Soviet Union, while China has been a reliable ally of India's arch-foe, Pakistan. "The two sides will be like two porcupines facing each other," says Delhi-based security analyst C. Uday Bhaskar, "They have had little contact for 40 years, and a negative perception of the other still prevails, more so, perhaps, on the Indian side...
...beyond mere symbolic gestures towards more substantive steps to resolve outstanding issues." As the economic and security architecture of Asia is re-drawn, competition for resources and influence is likely to grow between Asia's second and third biggest economies. But this need not necessarily lead to tension, as Bhaskar points out: "What matters is how China wants to see India in the long run - as a worthy global power, or as an antagonist that must be mired in South Asia. In the past China has leaned towards the latter approach; it has been arming Pakistan to bog India down...
...loudest reverberations came from India. Cried Sir Syed Raza Ali, who spent a term in South Africa as India's Agent-General : "Repressive, offensive, objectionable." Said Dr. Narayan Bhaskar Khare, member of the Viceroy's Council in New Delhi: "I wish India was in a position to declare war on South Africa here and now. If I had been able to do so, I would have lost no time in taking an army there...