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With structural policy inertia and bureaucratic delays in Defence procurement and military Modernisation India has been facing the absence of tangible deterrence against China. Indian policy makers are wary of China while at the same time acknowledge the fact that alliance or even long term strategic tango with US has enormous international costs.

To avoid this quagmire situation the book addresses the debate about the intense competition and occasional cooperation between India and China with a focus on Southeast Asian region. The competition between two nations has intensified for gaining market access and larger stakes in mineral and energy resources, to fuel respective economic growth and development. However, this economic trickledown effect has reached remote regions of South-eastern China and Northeast India forcing the two countries to engage and cooperate with the countries of Southeast Asia. Conversely with China's increasing assertive behaviour in its contiguous maritime zones i.e. East China sea and South China sea as well as US pivot policy in Asia, the power configuration between India and China has been getting more complex.