In addition to the change of tone on North Korea, one of the more interesting trends in recent years in Chinese foreign policy has been the increasingly strident tone against India.
What does this have to do with Obama’s trip to Beijing? Quite a bit, argues an Indian scholar in the Huanqiu Shibao.
In the meantime, Chinese are getting nervous about an Indian-Japanese alignment to contain China — suspicions which Hatoyama’s return to “checkbook diplomacy” in Afghanistan may confirm.
Adam Cathcart 