The Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations provides a much-needed understanding of the important and complex relationship between India and China.

Introduction 1. Reflections on Comparing China and India Historical Overviews 2. China and India Pre-1939 3. Relations between the Republic of China and India, 1937-1949 4. The 1950s in China-India Relations Culture and Strategic Culture: Constructing the Other 5. The New Indian Communities in China 6. The Alien Next Door: Media Images in China and India 7. India in China's Strategic Thought 8. China in India's Strategic Thought Core Bilateral Conflicts 9. Stability in a Secondary Strategic Direction: China and the Border Dispute with India After 1962 10. Differences not Disputes: India's View of the Border after 1962 11. Solving a Solved Problem: The Tibet Issue in China-India Relations 12. China-India River Conflicts: Towards a Solution through Launching a Cooperation Spiral Military Relations 13. Offensive Defense: India's Strategic Responses to the Rise of China 14. Asymmetric but Uneven: The China-India Conventional Military Balance 15. China-India and Maritime Security: A Contest for Power and Influence in the Indian Ocean 16. China and India: Two Models for AI Military Acquisition and Integration Economy and Connectivity 17. Bilateral Economic Relations Amid Trade and Trust Deficits 18. China, India, and Asian Connectivity: China's View 19. China, India, and Asian Connectivity: India's View 20. Diverging Capitalism in China and India: A Historical Institutionalist Approach 21. Contested Partnership: China and India in a Changing BRICS 22. The China-India-US Triangle: A View from Washington 23. Russia: A Balancer in India-China Relations? 24. India, China and Japan's Policy of Regionalism 25. India and the China-Pakistan Relationship - De-hyphenation and Re-hyphenation 26. Across the Himalayas: China in India's Neighbourhood 27. Unequal Rivals: China, India and the Struggle for Influence in Southeast Asia 28. China and India in the Middle East: The Rivalry moves West? 29. China and India's Engagement with Africa: Seeking National Interests 30. Beyond Triangulation: Latin America and the Caribbean's Relations with China and India in the Era of the Belt and Road Initiative China, India, and Global Order 31. Chinese and Indian Competitive Nuclear Restraint in the Global Nuclear Order 32. China, India, and Outer Space: Cooperation and Competition in the Global Commons 33. China, India and Global Security: Deploying to UN Peacekeeping Operations and Shaping the Responsibility to Protect 34. China and India: Continuity and Change in Climate Negotiations 35. Engaging Global Health Governance: The Experience of China and India