China’s challenge to India

On the podcast this week, we look at the growing tensions between India and China. This week marks three years since Indian and Chinese troops were killed fighting each other in the Himalayas along the contested border. Since then, ties between Beijing and New Delhi have gone from bad to worse. This week, India's last remaining journalist in China was asked to leave. A stark sign of the increasingly cold ties between the two countries. We discuss the current state of India’s relations with China and how concerned the world should be.

Also on the show, we take a wider look at India’s foreign policy ambitions and the challenges it faces as it attempts to become a global power, amid a turbulent neighbourhood in South Asia and beyond. We look at India’s relations with its key neighbours in South Asia, the security challenges it faces, notably the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, as well as New Delhi’s growing ties with the Quad nations, Japan, Australia, and the United States. Will the 21st Century be an ‘Indian Century’ after all?

Joining Bronwen Maddox this week are Dr Avinash Paliwal from University London SOAS; from New Delhi Dr Raji Pillai,the Director of the Centre for Security, Strategy and Technology at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and from Nepal journalist Amish Raj Mulmi, author of the book All Roads Lead North.

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Presented by Bronwen Maddox. Produced by John Pollock. Sound by Abdul Boudiaf and Matthew Docherty.