China's Foreign Relations and Security Dimensions

China is the world’s second largest economy and a key player in world politics. This book looks at China’s foreign policy from a macro perspective. It analyses China’s peripheral and regional policy as well as its relations with other major powers ― India and Russia. It offers insight into the historical security concerns of China and the linkages of internal domestic issues with external diplomacy which reshape its relations with neighbouring countries. The volume also examines President Xi Jinping’s foreign policy orientations and aspirations for future.

Geeta Kochhar is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Chinese and South East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She received her PhD from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. She was awarded the Asia Fellowship to undertake research at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She was also awarded the India–China Bilateral Cultural Exchange Scholarship (September 1995 to July 1997) by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India for pursuing advance studies in China. She has co-edited three books: Unique Asian Triangle: India, China, Nepal (2016); India–China–Nepal: Decoding Trilateralism (2016); and Nepal’s Foreign Policy and Her Neighbours (2016). She has also authored 1000 Powerful Chinese Lexicon: Chinese, English, Hindi (2017). She has presented many papers in national and international conferences on China, published several papers in journals and organised conferences.