Pic: Suman Reddy D Former Foreign Secretary of India Vijay Gokhle and Syed Akbaruddin , Dean of Kautilya school of ublic policy discussed his book name of CHINA’S WARS in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
As Xi Jinping grows older — he is soon going to be 75 — you’re going to have factionalism and a succession struggle.
Hyderabad: Indians are obsessed with the politics of Pakistan and Bangladesh but have little knowledge of China, said former foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale, recommending that India study Chinese domestic politics to a much greater extent than it does. The author of China’s Wars , Gokhale said there had been only two occasions when power was transferred relatively peacefully in the history of the Chinese Communist Party. The former Ambassador of India to China said the Chinese military and its capabilities, economic power and diplomatic influence are all important when deciding war and peace.
“China doesn’t have a succession plan. There is no heir apparent. That’s a political crisis potentially brewing, and one possibility when a political crisis gets really problematic is an external adventure. And we are one of the potential targets for that.
So, I think it’s very important that we study the domestic politics of China,” he said at an event in Hyderabad on Tuesday.