Progress,Perceptions and Peace in the Sino-Indian Relationship

The Chinese and Indian government are eager to intensify bilateral ties. This paper evaluates whether this enthusiasm has positively affected perceptions of the two societies in general, political actors and experts. A review of opinion polls, publications and official documents learned that this is not the case. Mutual perceptions are marked with ambivalence and distrust.

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Jonathan Holslag   is a researcher at the Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies (BICCS) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. This study is based on extensive terrain research in China and India between December 2007 and March 2008.