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At the heart of this book stands a single bold proposition: that
the future of Asia may one day be transformed not by another
open war, nor by another cycle of exhausted rhetoric, but by an
unexpected and disciplined understanding between powers long
regarded as destined for permanent confrontation. The argument
developed in these pages is that India and China, despite their
history of rivalry, may under altered circumstances discover that
controlled cooperation in one decisive field is more beneficial
than the endless reproduction of mutual strategic injury. Such
an arrangement would not erase all dispute. It would not turn
competition into friendship, nor difference into harmony. It would,
however, create a new principle of order—one in which the
movement of energy, trade, and political consequence begins to
matter more than the maintenance of old hostilities for their
own sake.


