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Major New Clingendael Study "Détente Between China and India: The Delicate Balance of Geopolitics in Asia"

September 1, 2008. Clingendael Diplomacy Paper 16 Willem van Kemenade wrote a major new Clingendael Study "Détente Between China and India: The Delicate Balance of Geopolitics in Asia". China and India -- combined population of 2.4 billion, 40 per cent of the world's total - have entered into a new era of cooperative relations. China is well on its way to becoming a global superpower and is expected to overtake the United States in two to three decades. While India will be no match for China in quantitative terms, in some key aspects it will be superior to China because of its much younger population, English-speaking brainpower and private high-tech enterprises. Read more »