Geopolitics
From Sacred Land to Strategic Blind Spot: The Tragic Arrogance of China's Dismissal of India
China's perception of India has shifted dramatically from the sacred Buddhist homeland described by Faxian 1,600 years ago to a nation it sees as backward and irrelevant, notably absent from its modern vision of the future as exemplified by the sci-fi novel 'The Three-Body Problem'. It is a tragic and arrogant dismissal stemming from a self-imposed historical amnesia, where China's own rise from humiliation blinds it to the legitimate, diverse, and powerful civilizational path of a fellow Global South giant.
