Professor Kanti Bajpai discusses the subject of China and India, and their fraught relationship with Straits Times' associate editor Ravi Velloor on the podcast "Speaking of Asia".
They discuss the following points:
1. How worrying are the clashes between India and China? (2:47)
2. China & India 4 Ps: Perceptions, Perimeters, Partnerships and Power (5:53)
3. Physical factors that limit the impact of China's military superiority (13:05)
4. Increasing number of border confrontations from 2006 onwards, and why troubles in Tibet are so sensitive (17:12)
5. Do close cultural contacts between the two countries over the centuries matter? (26:40)
6. How India moving closer to the United States is impacting its relationship with China (38:35)
7. Reactions to Prof Bajpai's book, especially in India (45:10)
8. Asian neighbours - including Singapore - do not have polarised views towards China but what political and economic considerations need to be balanced? (48:30)