The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is India’s powerful neighbor since the first year of 1950’s. Before that, without prejudice to the issue of its status of sovereignty or Chinese suzerainty, Tibet had de facto fulfilled the role. That fact of past unfamiliarity with Chinese way of politico-diplomatic expressions, aided by China’s unilaterally adopted adversarial posture towards India, makes it imperative for India’s strategic community to study China’s moves very carefully, and draw conclusions for the purpose of managing the strained relationship. This book is a compilation of such observations, analyses and inferences.