China’s Defence Policy: Indian Perspective

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China’s rise on the world stage has been relentless and consistent over the past two decades. This rise is concurrent with the United States’ perceived decline as an economic power influence on the world stage. Today the story of China’s growth has become a subject of avid discussion and analysis not only among world leaders, academicians and members of the strategic community, but even bythe print and visual media and sections of the public at large.

Over the last decade, China has been biennially releasing White Papers on National Defence. This book gives out an invaluable Indian critique on China’s national defence policy, nuclear environment, maritime strategy, leap frogging development in space warfare and network centric warfare capabilities with a special reference to the White Paper released in 2010. Above all, it provides a road map on China’s plan to deal with its perceived security challenges.

As China rises, its core issues have expanded from Tibet and Taiwan to the South China Sea, which is a deviation from its professed intentions of a peaceful rise and defence modernization only for defence. What message is China trying to send? This book allows the reader to pick out the gaps between professed Chinese intentions and practices on ground, which should lead to a better understanding of China’s rise, particularly for India’s security.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gurmeet Kanwal

Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal, a former Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, commanded a field artillery regiment in counter-insurgency operations in the Kashmir Valley. He has served as Director MO-5 in the Directorate General of Military Operations at Army Headquarters, New Delhi, the Brigade Major of an infantry brigade, a United Nations Military Observer in UNTAG, Namibia, and as an Instructor-in-Gunnery at the School of Artillery, Devlali. He is a graduate of the Defence Services Staff College, the Long Gunnery Staff Course and the Higher Command Course. Brigadier Kanwal has written several books. He edited the Artillery Journal for four years and was the editor of UNTAG Journal, Namibia, while serving as a UN military observer. He has been an honorary member of the Board of Editorial Consultants of Indian Defence Review, has written extensively on defence and national security issues for various national newspapers and military journals and writes a regular column for The Statesman. He has recently been nominated to take over command of an Infantry Brigade deployed on the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.