Decoding Sino-Indian diplomacy

Mr Gokhale has analysed Chinese negotiating behaviour through a set of six issues relating to India-China relations

The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India 

Author: Vijay Gokhale

Publisher: Penguin

Price: Rs 699

As an Indian Foreign Service officer fluent in the Chinese language and with long years of service in China and in managing India’s relations with China, Vijay Gokhale’s insights on Chinese negotiating behaviour have particular relevance at a point when these relations are under strain again. There is a mystique about Chinese statecraft and the skills of its diplomatic agents. The Chinese are good negotiators but not always. They are inheritors of a long and tried and tested tradition of statecraft but forged within a certain historical