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Introduction --A Chronology of Chinese History and Corresponding Historical Developments in the Indian Subcontinent --How History and Culture have Shaped China's World View --A Chinese Narrative of Its History --The Mandate of Heaven and Rule over 'All Under Heaven' --How Early Encounters with Hostile Tribes on the Periphery Shaped China's World View --Early Intimations of India as 'Shendu' - the Western Realm --Chinese Pilgrims Journey to the 'West' and Diplomatic Missions Follow --China Creates Its Own Buddhist Universe --The Emergence of a Chinese Cultural Sphere --Riding the Waves: The Emergence of China as a Maritime Power --From Maritime Supremacy to Continental Isolation: China under the Yuan and Ming Dynasties --Tibet and China: A Complex and Contested Relationship --China Under Alian Manchus: The Qing Dynasty --China's Century of Humiliation and Its Response to the Western Challenge --India as Teacher by Negative Example --The Chinese Communist Party Rules 'All Under Heaven' --How China Sees India and the World: The Years of Transformation --Xi Jinping's China Dream and the Community of Common Destiny --The Future of India-China Relations --Afterword: China in the Post-Ukraine War World --Appendix: A Note on the Chinese Script --Notes --Acknowledgements --Select Bibliography --Index --Excerpt from Shyam Saran's How India Sees the World

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) does not impose mitigation obligations on developing countries since it recognises that Climate Change is taking place due to the cumulative accumulation of GHGs in the atmosphere, for which developed countries are responsible. This is the principle of historical responsibility and this is acknowledged by developed countries, including the US. Notwithstanding the principles and provisions of the UNFCCC, developed countries in the EU and the US argue that major developing countries like China, India, Brazil and South Africa, should also undertake mitigation actions, since their GHG emissions are rising rapidly and will overwhelm any reductions carried out by developed countries. While mitigation actions by developing countries, in the initial stages, need not involve absolute reductions, they need to represent a 'Significant deviation from their business as usual emission trajectories'. There is a demand that such deviation be quantified and be included in the form of a commitment.

Emphasizes the need to establish coordinated global responses to climate change at the December 2009 Copenhagen meeting of the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The architecture required to mobilize & sustain this collaborative response is described, including the different tools needed to address the two distinct but interrelated phenomena manifested by climate change: adaptation & mitigation. Financing & technological capability are discussed as two key aspects of a climate change regime. Adapted from the source document.