Scale deconstruction of contemporary China-India border dispute
The China-India border dispute is the biggest obstacle to the development of China-India relations.The existing studies on the China-India border dispute do not pay enough atten-tion to geographical factors and lack comprehensive analysis of multi-agent and multi-scale,so it is difficult to grasp the essential characteristics and overall situation of the China-India border is-sue.This paper proposes a multi-scale geopolitical analysis framework to analyze the competi-tive nature of contemporary China-India border dispute under the joint action of multi-scale and multi-agent.The main conclusion is that the contemporary China-India border dispute is a com-plex problem caused by multi-scale spatial superposition and multi-agent power game.On the global scale,the China-India border dispute is an important part of the strategic interaction be-tween the United States and India to contain China;At the regional scale of South Asia,China-In-dia border dispute is a land blockade for India and its partner countries to restrict China's expan-sion of influence in South Asia;On the bilateral scale of China and India,India regards the Chi-na-India border dispute as a strategic fulcrum to seek land advantages over China,and tries to gain strategic advantages over China on both land and sea;At the national internal scale,the Chi-na-India border dispute is a competition between China and India in the border transformation mechanism;At the border area scale,the China-India border dispute is a competition between the two countries in terms of their ability to effectively manage border areas.The national inter-nal scale is the core scale that determines the China-India border dispute,but the possibility of the two countries reaching a reasonable compromise on this scale is still very small in the short term.The current situation of the global,South Asian region,and bilateral scale is not conducive to a rational solution of the China-India border dispute.The border area scale is the main focus of the China-India border dispute for a long time.
China-India border disputemulti-scale analysisgeopoliticsactorspower game