Journal of Contemporary Politics
DOI: 10.53989/jcp.v2i1_5_menon
Year: 2023, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-14
Original Article
Dhruv Ashok 1 , Joshy M Paul 2 , Venugopal B Menon ✉ 3
Received Date:16 January 2023, Accepted Date:18 March 2023, Published Date:28 March 2023
China has enhanced its friendly engagement with South Asia in recent times, especially India. For the emergence of China as a great power in Asia, it wants to avoid any sort of resistance from regional countries and in this pursuance China considers India could be the hindrance. China is recently increasing diplomatic and economic engagement with the South Asian countries, after it has successfully implemented its ‘feel-good’ diplomacy in Central Asia and Southeast Asia. China’s diplomatic initiative is based on Gramsci’s ‘consensus’ theory approach by embracing the regional countries through cooperation and consensus in order to ensure that no one should oppose its supremacy in Asia.
Keywords: China, Hegemony, South Asia, Consensus
© 2023 Published by Bangalore University. This is an open-access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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