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1. Introduction: The BRI as Strategic Camouflage -- 2. The Road to the Belt and the Road -- 3. The BRI and its Different Manifestations -- 4. India May Join and Benefit from the BRI – A Chinese View -- 5. The BRI and the Good, Not So Good and Bad Business with India -- 6. India as Jealous Foe...

This book analyses Chinese discourse on Indian attitudes towards the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI), and argues that the Indian discourse is becoming one of the biggest hurdles to China creating its own narrative about China's rise in Asia and beyond. In doing so, it spans across the themes of the...