Harsh V. Pant (Professor
of international relations at King’s College London) notes:
“Underlying all
this petulance about boundaries and territories, behind all this façade of
sovereignty, the Sino-India standoff in Doklam is about whether the future of
Asia will be one with China as the dominant actor, dictating the terms of
acceptable behaviour to other nations or whether the future of Asia will be a
multipolar one in the real sense of the term. India has decided to stand its
ground because there is far too much at stake in responding to Chinese
bullying.”
Brahma Chellaney on China’s increasingly aggressive
foreign policy stance:
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/china-india-border-standoff-by-brahma-chellaney-2017-08
“The more power China has accumulated, the more it has attempted to achieve its foreign-policy objectives with bluff, bluster, and bullying.”
“The more power China has accumulated, the more it has attempted to achieve its foreign-policy objectives with bluff, bluster, and bullying.”
Related:
India-China Border Dispute