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34. Liu Yang and Guo Feng, “What is the Intention of Wantonly
Engaging in Military Ventures—India’s Military Development
Should Be Watched Out For,” PLA Daily, May 19, 1998.
35. The most recent report of this assistance is R. Jeffrey Smith
and Joby Warrick, “A Nuclear Power’s Act of Proliferation,” The
Washington Post, November 13, 2009.
36. Bernard D. Cole, The Great Wall at Sea: China’s Navy Enters
the Twenty-First Century, Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press,
2001, p. 35.
37. See, for example, Commodore Gurpreet S. Khurana, “China-India
Maritime Rivalry,” Indian Defence Review, Vol. 23, Issue
4, October 1-December 31, 2008, pp. 89-93.
38. Andrew Erickson and Lyle Goldstein, “Gunboats for China’s
New ‘Grand Canals’? Probing the Intersection of Beijing’s
Naval and Oil Security Policies,” Naval War College Review, Vol.
62, No. 2, Spring 2009, pp. 55-57.
39. Embassy of India, “New Framework for the U.S.-India Defense
Relationship,” Washington, DC, June 28, 2005.
40. “Washington Draws India in Against China,” Renmin Ribao
WWW-Text in English, July 7, 2005.
41. Christopher Griffin, “Containment with Chinese Characteristics:
Beijing Hedges against the Rise of India,” Asian Outlook,
No. 3, September 2006, p. 4.
42. This discussion draws primarily from Bhartendu Kumar
Singh, “Military Diplomacy: The Future of Sino-Indian Military
Relations?” China Brief, Vol. 8, Issue 23, December 8 2008.
43. Indrani Bagchi, “NSA Gets Charge of Ties With China,”
The Times of India Online, August 9, 2009.
44. For a useful assessment of China’s policy and strategy
toward Central Asia see, Robert Sutter, “Durability in China’s
Strategy toward Central Asia—Reasons for Optimism,” China and
Eurasia Forum Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2008, pp. 3-10.
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