China, India and an Increasingly Dangerous Game of Influence on the World Stage

by Simon DenyerIt was billed as a new assertiveness, when India’s usually meek PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh supposedly looked his Chinese counterpart inthe eye at a summit in Bali two weeks ago and defended his country’s“commercial” right to explore for oil and gas in the South China Sea.But it was also a sign of rising frictions between India and China,and of what experts see as a dangerous new game between the world’smost populous nations.Threatened by China’s rapidly growing ties

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