China-Pakistan Ties and Kashmir: History and Geopolitics

China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the multi-billion dollar flagship project under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has brought the Sino-Pakistan partnership at the centre stage of contemporary strategic discourse. Against this backdrop, the monograph is an attempt to understand how the decades-strong Sino-Pak relationship has evolved intertwined around the issue of Kashmir. It collates/ examines the approaches/policies on the Kashmir issue adopted by the two countries, individually and in combination, before listing out implications and options for India.

About the Author

Dr. Priyanka Singh is Associate Fellow at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi and associated with the South Asia Centre. She holds an Honours degree in Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, and a PhD from the University of Lucknow. Her PhD thesis was titled: “Indo-US Relations in the Last Decade - 1990-2000: Shifting Paradigms”. Her broader research interests include: Sino- Pakistan ties, China-Pakistan-Afghanistan triangular geopolitics, India-US relations, US engagement in Pakistan, Kashmir, CPEC, and the Cross Line of Control Confidence Building Measures between India and Pakistan. She is the editor of the book The Role of Media in Promoting Regional Understanding in South Asia (Pentagon Press, 2016), and co-editor of Proliferation and Emerging Nuclear Order in the Twenty-First Century (Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2009) and Saving Afghanistan (Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2009).