Influence of Provinces on Chinese Foreign Policy

What is it about?

This chapter examines in detail the role of Chinese provinces in the country’s growth story and to see how this experience can be a learning experience for Indian states. Indeed, some have already begun to both learn from and imitate the Chinese experience as well as to chart their own ways given the differing national and local conditions. China has been far more open to decentralization than is commonly assumed while India has been far more unitary than its federal structure mandated.

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Why is it important?

As two large countries with similar development challenges including those of large territories, huge populations, wide regional differences, environmental stress, and despite India’s democracy, issues of corruption and various forms of social conservatism, on the one hand and challenges of administration and management on the other, there is much that Chinese provinces and Indian states have in common.