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Sino-Indian cooperation and relations have been issue-oriented and despite multiple convergences based on the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, there have been no marked signals that China is interested in promoting its relations with India to a higher strategic plane. Both countries need to take a look at the way they perceive each other and reshape their foreign policies accordingly

The premise of this article is that although the central role of the State in developing economies is indispensable, decentralisation of decision-making authority is inevitable in the governance of territorially large societies such as the People's Republic of China (PRC). A key component in the developmental experience of the PRC, as regards the two distinct models of development—Maoist and Dengist—has been a marked decentralisation of power and authority, an inevitable requirement in a territorially large and diverse country like China. The crucial point, however, is that during the Maoist and the Dengist eras, the strategies of development were distinguished by, among other features, two very distinct types of decentralisation.Whereas the Maoist developmental strategy was predominantly administrative, the Dengist strategy of decentralisation is predominantly market-driven. Besides, it is highly imperative to note that there are a great many points of departure between the Maoist and the Dengist developmental strategies. This article briefly traces the origins of decentralisation in post-1949 China and compares the Maoist and Dengist policies with regard to decentralisation. It essentially focuses on decentralisation strategies in the period of market reforms and the significance of the Chinese model of development for the developing countries.

China has responded to criticisms of its handling of the COVID outbreak by an assertive foreign policy style referred to as 'wolf-warrior diplomacy'. This study argues that this does not represent a radical shift in Chinese foreign policy but exacerbates a pre-existing trend. We say that this assertiveness builds upon the twin pillars of 'core interests and the unambiguous exposition of the 'striving for achievement' policy adopted by China since Xi Jinping's elevation as the President in 2012. We outline China's response to its competition with the United States, based on heightened nationalism and practiced through centralised decision making.

BRICS is conceivably the most formidable organisation to have emerged in the post-Cold War period in the non-Western world. This book highlights the significance of BRICS in a wider global context and foregrounds the long pending demand for the reform of global governance institutions.

State-Society Relations and Governance in China, a wide-ranging collection of essays written by scholars from both inside and outside China, explores the complexity of the changing state-society relationship and the modes and practices of governance in China by combining theoretical exploration and empirical case studies.