Abstract
The study observes that transforming geostrategic landscape of South, South East Asia, and IOR is remolding the existing contours of various alliances and partnerships’ structures. This is increasing the strategic significance of India and Pakistan in US and Chinese calculus. The growing centrality of South Asian rivals in US and Chinese strategic equation is expected to prominently surface in geostrategic and geo-economic trajectories. In essence, it is a struggle for the retention of US primacy, which ipso facto is being contested by rising China. It analyzes the prospects of peaceful rise of China or otherwise vis-à-vis US. In contemporary world, nuclear is fundamentally a critical deterring factor, which in past did not exist to prevent rivals from wars.
Keyword(s)
Nuclear, Geostrategic Contours, Trilateral Security Dialogue