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ABSTRACT This article contributes to the existing literature on India–China relations. It argues and illustrates that China is also dismissive of India’s great power ambitions because Chinese policy makers and elites believe that India’s democratic political system is underdeveloped and dysfunctional and is inferior to China’s political system, and view India with disdain. Chinese elites (and the Chinese public) also believe that India’s democratic political system is responsible for India’s poor economic performance, its inability to achieve sustainable long-term growth and achieve great power status. They also believe that India is an imperfect and failed democracy which has been unable to provide social and political stability to the country. Because of democracy, India is a weak state and a soft state with lingering domestic security challenges and threats such as Islamic fundamentalist terrorism and Naxalite-Maoist violence/terrorism. Hence, China is dismissive of India’s great power ambitions.
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