ISAS Insights

China has now run the proverbial extra mile to demonstrate to India that it should know the limitations of its power to shape the emerging global order of the 21st Century. Beijing has done so by keeping India out of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, but explicitly disclaiming any such anti-India agenda. At a related echelon, New Delhi has acceded to the Missile Technology Control Regime, another high-profile group where significantly China is not a member. Outwardly esoteric, such a China-India shadow-boxing has not affected the dialogue between these two countries, at least not immediately. If sustained, such a potentially all-weather China-India dialogue should augur well for the future of Asia and the world.