Since The End Of The Cold War Sino-indian Relations

India is an important neighboring country of China. It's an important element for China to develop the Sino-Indian relations with a view to develop relations with big powers, neighboring countries and the Third World ones. At the present time, China is at a critical period of peaceful development; and it's in favor of extending the period of strategic chance of China's peaceful development by properly dealing with Sino-Indian relations. However, China's study on the relations with its neighboring countries has been a weak link for a long time, with no exception to the study on Sino-Indian relations. Although China has already strengthened the study on Sino-Indian relations since the end of Cold War, the achievement does not assort with the fact that China and India are important neighboring countries to each other. Hence, it still has important practical significance to study Sino-Indian relations.There is friendly cooperation as well as military conflicts in two thousands years of Sino-India Intercourse history. And we can say that there are great ups and downs in Sino-Indian relations. However, peace and amity is still the mainstream of Sino-Indian relations. Sino-Indian relations has achieved whole development in a tortuous way since the end of Cold War. In political field, China and India has established new framework of strategic cooperative partner relationship orientating to peace and prosperity; in economic field, the annual total amount of Sino-Indian trade has exceeded 2000 billion dollars, and established the aim of 4000 billion dollars till 2010; in security field, China and India has built confidence measures on common border area, and made new breakthroughs in the field of military contact and cooperation. In cultural field,'the Sino-Indian friendship Year'of 2006 has propelled Sino-Indian cultural communication to another climax. In a word, Sino-Indian relations has made whole achievement since the end of Cold War.The dissertation consists of three parts: Introduction, main body and conclusion. The introduction includes the following content: (1)the significance, purpose, research methods and innovations of the dissertation; (2)the study status quo and achievements related to this topic home and abroad. The main body includes six chapters. In the first chapter, beginning with reviewing the history of Sino-Indian relations, the author examines the development of Sino-Indian relations before the end of Cold War with an aim to learn for macro that the development condition of Sino-Indian relations and to probe into the law of Sino-Indian relations development. The author concludes that the unity of stability and instability is an outstanding characteristic of the development of Sino-Indian relations by doing this.In the second chapter, the author analyses the development of Sino-Indian relations since the end of Cold War in two aspects by methods of analyzing the era's characteristics of the post-Cold War. By examining the tortuous development process of Sino-Indian Relations, the author thinks that Sino-Indian relations is becoming reasonable and mature since the end of Cold War.In the third chapter, the author analyses the factors that affect the development of Sino-Indian relations from the point view of national interest, and he thinks that the mutual interest is far above the conflicted interest between China and India. However, their conflicted interest cannot be neglected. China and India should spread their mutual interest, face up and properly deal with their conflicted interest to improve the Sino-Indian good-neighborly relations.In the fourth chapter, the author analyses the cognition of China and India to themselves and to each other from the point view of social cognition. The author thinks that social cognition is among the important factors that influence Sino-Indian relations by analyzing and contrasting. China and India, especially India should learn from history and realism how to correctly cognize themselves, fairly treat the other side, put right wrong cognition and establish impersonal cognition, which is an important precondition that Sino-Indian relations be stable and developmental.In the fifth chapter, the author analyses the mutual action between external powers and Sino-Indian relations. After concretely analyzing three triangles which are Sino-Indian-US relations, Sino-Indian-Russian relations, and Sino-Indian-Pakistan relations, the author thinks that all these trilateration relations appear benign interaction direction since the end of Cold War, the influence of external factors on Sino-Indian relations become weak but its passive influence is still severe. China and India should continue building external environment that in favor of creating Sino-Indian good-neighborly relations.In the sixth Chapter, the author mainly analyses how to develop Sino-Indian good-neighborly relations. The author predicts the direction of Sino-Indian relations by analyzing India's policy towards China since the end of Cold War, and thinks that China should prepare two-handed tactics to deal with India's two-sided policies towards China after analyzing the position of Sino-Indian relations in China's general diplomatic layout.In the conclusive part, the author draws some conclusions on the development of Sino-Indian relations. Firstly, the mutual interest between China and India is far above their conflicted interest, hence there will be little possibility of great ups and downs in Sino-Indian relations in future, but partial interest conflict will be unavoidable. Secondly, China and India has almost stepped into a new stage of good-neighborly relations, but which is in spite of illness. Thirdly, it is still very difficult to settle the dispute over Sino-Indian border territory, and there will be no possibility of settling this dispute if neither India nor China will make substantive concessions. Fourthly, there will be no immediate rectification of mistakes and prejudice in India's cognition on China, the balance measure will still be leading policy of India's policies towards China, and two-sidedness will be still a characteristic of India's policy towards China. Fifthly, the ultimate outlet of Sino-Indian relations is Asian cooperation, and builds an'Asian Union'which is similar to the European Union.