In an interview with NBR, Charles Ebinger outlines India’s current and future challenges in meeting its electricity demand. He argues that without serious energy and electricity sector reform, India runs the risk of derailing its rapid economic growth.

NBR spoke with M. Taylor Fravel, Strategic Asia contributing author and associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who argues that China views India’s rise as a largely positive development that promotes China’s own interests and objectives more than it threatens or challenges them.

Last year, trade between the United States and India reached $48 billion, and it is poised to exceed that amount in the coming year. As economic woes intensify worldwide, how can the United States and India strengthen their trade and financial ties to the betterment of both nations and their bilateral relationship? NBR spoke with Ambassador Susan Esserman, a former deputy U.S. trade representative and expert on U.S.-India trade matters, about these and other issues.

Gabe Collins and Andrew S. Erickson

This essay argues that concerns about securing offshore energy production and the sea lanes used to import oil and liquefied natural gas are motivating naval modernization in the Asia-Pacific and creating associated security risks for the entire region.

Michael J. Green

This chapter examines Japan’s relations with and strategies toward China and India.

Harsh V. Pant

This chapter discusses the changing trajectory of Indian policy toward China and explores how India is responding to China’s rise across a range of issue areas central to its strategic calculus.

Kenneth B. Pyle

This chapter examines how Asia’s rise relates to classic questions about the integration of rising powers into the international system.

Teresita C. Schaffer

For Pakistan, the rise of India is a strategic nightmare, while the rise of China is an opportunity to curb India’s advancement and reduce dependence on the United States. Afghanistan sees its ties with India and China, as well as with the U.S., as vehicles for blunting interference by its immediate neighbors, especially Pakistan. Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka generally accept India’s primacy in their region. Bangladesh and Nepal see their ties with China as a way of increasing their freedom of action against India; Sri Lanka sees both India and China as means to emphasize its independence from Western donors.

Chung Min Lee

This chapter assesses Korean efforts to maximize a range of security and economic interests with the major powers of the Asian strategic landscape—especially China and India—without weakening South Korea’s central alliance with the U.S. or loosening its growing linkages with the international system.

Dmitri Trenin

This chapter examines Russian perceptions and policies regarding the rise of two Asian giants: one near neighbor, China, and one long-time ally, India.