The China-Pakistan Axis

This book looks at wide-ranging considerations which define how China pursues its larger interests, making use of bilateral and regional dynamics in its favour. The book also helps the readers to follow Asia’s unfolding geopolitics in which China’s friendship with Pakistan is one of many emerging axes. The key aspects of China’s broader interests – not just in its neighbourhood but also further afield – are motivated by a set of strategic considerations such as the need to keep its rivals off balance and also to keep competing regional dynamics in check. Investigating the interaction between the United States, China, India and Pakistan, the author sees them as ‘a group of countries pursuing hedged policies towards each other, using their rival’s opponents to gain leverage, trying to maintain sufficient levels of cooperation to continue to extract economic benefits even as strategic competition persists’ (p. 65).