China's Expansionist Agenda

China’s conduct and the logic of power by Harsh Pant

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/cvQxKI5NXXgmRLtEUZ6XFL/Chinas-conduct-and-the-logic-of-power.html

Pant rightly notes:

“Indian policymakers too have been part of this vacuous thinking for the past two decades. They got carried away by the propaganda which often managed to put China and India in the same league, assuming that being peers would somehow preclude any overt hostility. They also got carried away when their Chinese interlocutors assured them of their benign intentions and how there was enough space for both China and India to rise. Then came the biggest charade of all—Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). From an investment banker’s catchy phrase for his clients, it was converted into a geopolitical grouping. New Delhi entered into it with its eyes closed, only to be bamboozled by Chinese attempts to convert it into an extension of its own economic superiority.”

Related:

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/osChX68DikQsfrUSnxXQKL/Why-India-needs-to-be-aggressive-against-China-in-Doklam-sta.html
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/china-weaponization-of-trade-by-brahma-chellaney-2017-07
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/world/asia/dolam-plateau-china-india-bhutan.html