Dr Pradeep Taneja examines India’s response to China’s ambitious plan, the ‘One Belt, One Road’ global initiative, that will reshape its immediate neighbourhood as well as the Indian Ocean region. Xi Jinping has promoted this initiative as a win-win solution to some of the key challenges facing the world and many states have welcomed the initiative, attracted by the prospect of billions of dollars of Chinese investment in infrastructure and energy. Taneja shares his views.

Dr Pradeep Taneja teaches Chinese politics and international relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Melbourne, where he is also an Associate of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies and a Fellow if the Australia India Institute. Educated in India, China and Australia, Dr Taneja has been an astute observer of political and economic developments in both China and India for the past 25 years. He was a graduate student at Peking University in the 1980s and has worked in various parts of China for a number of years. He is currently working on a book looking at the rise of China from an Indian perspective.