‘China’s Undeclared Competition with India in Regional and Global Institutions’, The Hot Peace between China and India, Institut Montaigne, China Trends #19, April 2024. 17-22.

India-China bilateral relations are at their most difficult point in decades. China violated a host of bilateral treaties when it conducted a series of incursions across the Eastern section of the disputed India China boundary in the summer of 2020. In one
particular clash, 20 Indian soldiers and at least four
Chinese soldiers were killed.
And yet, China will not admit that it is in competition with India.
Such an admission would fly in the face of the narrative that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been building up in recent years, one where China is on its way to becoming a global superpower and that it is only the United States that stands in the
way. Admitting to serious bilateral tensions with India would raise questions about whether China was ready to face the United States if it could not even deal successfully with India.

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