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State or soldier? Explaining China's decisionmaking in India-China border crises

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Prevailing explanations for India-China border crises rely on rational actor models and assumes centralized decisionmaking. Instead, I argue that the several recent India-China border crises cannot be understood without separately interrogating the role of the PLA in China's national security policymaking. I argue that the PLA uses its operational independence to continuously challenge Indian forces on the contested border. The Indian forces, when confronted, pushed back. The several recent border standoffs are a manifestation of the interactions between the two armed forces.

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Jaganath Sankaran

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LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

2023

The journal of strategic studies

The journal of strategic studies

ISSN:0140-2390
年,卷(期):2023.46(6/7)
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