百年困局：中国与印度崛起的历史死结

For everyone who cares about international politics,
the must-read "Great Game between China and India"!

A comprehensive review of the major historical interactions between "China VS. India"
Explaining why the rise of the two countries inevitably leads to a dilemma of two strong powers

A Taiwanese scholar's long-accumulated expertise on contemporary Sino-Indian diplomatic issues, finally coming to fruition
A Chinese work that will undoubtedly be referenced in future research on Sino-Indian relations

This book takes "territorial disputes" as its main theme, interpreting the major historical conflicts and interactions between China and India. Through extensive book materials, historical documents, field investigations and interviews, combined with declassified diplomatic archives obtained by the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, it meticulously explains why Sino-Indian relations are at an impasse.

▲The vast legacy of Western imperialist colonization, did it lay the fuse for war in this region a hundred years ago?
▲The historical interactions among China, Tibet, and India over the past century, did they lead to today's border disputes between China and India?
▲What historical events and geographical locations influenced the spatial rivalry and constraints between the two countries?

Reasons why you must read this book if you want to understand contemporary Sino-Indian issues:
【A representative work by a Taiwanese scholar on Sino-Indian politics】
Led by a scholar, it explains in a fluent and accessible manner the intertwined diplomatic relations and military conflicts between China and India as two modern states throughout history. Whether it was the "Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai" (Indians and Chinese are brothers) buddy-buddy relationship, the "Chindia" (China and India) harmonious interaction, or the 1962 Sino-Indian War, or the serious conflict in the Galwan Valley in June 2020, the ever-changing relationship between the two countries has become more entangled, deepening the impasse.

【A bystander's perspective】
Breaking away from the limitations of a scholar's perspective from either China or India and the lack of data, and not constrained by the framework of great power diplomacy such as the US "Indo-Pacific Strategy" or the Quad (US, Japan, India, Australia), it develops a unique bystander's, yet not entirely uninvolved, international relations perspective from a Taiwanese scholar, and offers academic research contributions.

【A lesson to make up for China's territorial disputes】
To understand the current Chinese Communist Party government's obsession with "sacred and indivisible territory," one must supplement it with clues from other perspectives. Only by comprehensively overlooking "China" from various borders can one further interpret China's future foreign policy, as well as the conflicts and possible solutions in territorial disputes between China and its neighbors. This book is an important work that fills the gap in Sino-Indian geopolitics.

【Precious research historical materials, filling in little-known history to date】
By consulting rare materials, the author analyzes the role the Republic of China once played in Sino-Indian relations, as well as the interactions between the Republic of China and India. The Republic of China government once attempted to find a diplomatic breakthrough, but it came to nothing due to the Kuomintang's ideological dilemma.