BLACKWILL-CHINA 2LST

Blackwill, the former US Ambassador to India, said
that "so that's what the Chinese national security elite is
waiting to hear from the Obama administration, which is, do
you see us as a partner, if not the most important partner in
Asia, in trying to help manage the rise of Chinese power, not
in a confrontational way, but in a way that seeks to find
instruments to produce Chinese behavior which is more
congenial to both US and Indian long-term vital national
security interests?"
"That wish on the part of India to have that informal
understanding with the Americans has been accelerated and
intensified by Chinese external behaviour over the last year
and a half, including, again, to add more, the South China Sea
and so forth. So that's the way India sees China," he said.
"I think it would be true to say that the Indians
regard the rise of Chinese power, at least most of the
Indians, the national security experts -- the rise of Chinese
power as the most important of the long-term strategic
challenges facing India.
"And since at least I believe the rise of Chinese
power is the most important long-term challenge -- strategic
challenge facing the US, we ought to have a lot to talk about
with the Indians," he said. PTI