1. Introduction: China and South Asia in the 21st Century PART I: Politics and Strategy 2. CPEC and Changing Dynamics of ChinaIndia Relations 3. Chinas Trishula Approach in South Asia: Challenges to Balancing the End Game 4. Coping with Rising China: Responses of the Small States of South Asia 5. Cooperation or Competition in ChinaIndia Relations: A Quantitative Analysis of Debate 6. Security Environment in South Asia: The Role of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Part II: Belt and Road Initiative 7. Chinas 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road and its Influence on the Development of South Asia: A Geopolitical Perspective 8. Belt and Road Initiative: Changing Dynamics of Development in South Asia 9. Belt and Road Initiative: Chinese Normative Power in South Asia 10. BangladeshChina Maritime Security Cooperation: A Search for New Opportunities under the 'Belt and Road' Initiative Part III: Ideology, Media and Culture 11. The Impact of Sino-Soviet Spilt on the Left Politics in Pakistan 12. Image of China in Afghan Media 13. Prospects of ChinaIndia Bilateral Cooperation in Cultural Industry in a New Stage of the 21st Century 14. Development of Cultural Eco-tourism in Gilgit-Baltistan: Opportunities and Challenges in the Wake of CPEC Part IV: Great Power Politics 15. Anticipating the China Challenge: Chinas Rise and the United States Security Policy vis-?-vis India 16. Chinas Belt and Road Initiative and the Indian Ocean Balancls,