Emerging giants : China and India "Chindia"

The twenty-first century looks upon China and India as emerging economic and political champions; very different from the portrayal of the twentieth century which anticipated United States, the Soviet Union, Japan and North Western Europe to be the world's great powers (Drezner, 2007). The central focus of this research is to establish, why China and India would cooperate rather than rival one another despite a history of disputed borders and an element of mistrust? The main strategic purpose of both China and India is driven by the desire to seek regional and then global strategic dominance which makes all other objectives subservient to that.