Chapter 1 China’s Twenty-First Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative and South Asia: Political and Economic Contours, Challenges, and Conundrums

Chapter 3 The MSRI and the Evolving Naval Balance in the Indian Ocean

Chapter 4 China’s Strategy Towards South Asia in the Context of the Maritime Silk Road Initiative

Chapter 5 The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor and the China–India–Pakistan Triangle

Chapter 6 Sri Lanka, the Maritime Silk Road, and Sino-Indian Relations

Chapter 7 The Maritime Silk Road and China–Maldives Relations

Chapter 8 The MSRI, China, and India: Economic Perspectives and Political Impressions