Abstract
India’s comprehensive national strength has been continuously promoted in recent years, with a fast development speed attracting the attention of the international community, which makes it an important and unneglectable force in the world, and leads great powers to develop closer and more cooperative relations with it actively. This paper devotes to the overall review of India’s internal and external environments in the process of its development, and analyzes in depth the favorable factors and main obstacles to its development. On this basis, this paper, from the aspects of politics, economy, military affairs, science and technology, and diplomacy, further explores the strategic supports of India’s rise. In general, the rise of India has the solid strategic supports, but it will be a long and slow process.
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Du, Y., Li, H. (2017). Internal and External Development Environment and Strategic Support for the Rise of India. In: Wang, R., Zhu, C. (eds) Annual Report on the Development of the Indian Ocean Region (2016). Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4693-3_4
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