‍Central Asia and The Caucasus Journal

The impact of the Indo-Pacific structure on the competition between India and China

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Hosein Emamverdi 1
Reza Rahmati 2

1 Doctoral student of international relations, University of Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22034/ca.2025.729388
Abstract
This article traces India and China's rivalry in the Indo-Pacific as a newly emerging pivot region. These recent developments, which have been extremely violent and include military conflicts with casualties, have greatly damaged bilateral relations. While examining the reasons for the fall of bilateral relations to the lowest level, this article answers the question of how the Indo-Pacific structure has placed India and China in a competitive relationship with each other. The hypothesis of the article is that apart from specific bilateral disputes, Sino-Indian relations have been affected by global and regional developments. The increase in tension between the United States of America and China, and the evolution of the Indo-Pacific structure are among the reasons that have increased the distance and mistrust between the two countries. China's efforts in the fight for strategic areas, China's increasing influence in India's neighboring countries and the Belt and Road Initiative on the one hand, and India's actions in the form of establishing strategic alliances, the quadrilateral security dialogue and the Look East policy on the other hand, on the neighboring countries. It has been influential and has forced them to make complex choices in the field of political-security interactions and commercial-economic development.

Keywords

India
China
Belt Initiative
Security Dialogue
Cooperation
Indo-Pacific

Subjects

‍Central Asia and The Caucasus Journal
Volume 31, Issue 130
Summer 2025
Pages 3-28

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