The impact of China's defence modernisation on India's national security would be profound and direct. Are India and China natural rivals?



Author Bio: The author holds the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at CSIS. He is also a national security analyst for ABC News, a frequent commentator on National Public Radio and the BBC, and the author of more than 45 books on security policy, energy policy, and the Middle East, including Iran's Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Real and Potential Threat (CSIS, 2006). Martin Kleiber is a researcher with the Burke Chair at CSIS. He has worked on security sector reform and nuclear nonproliferation at the German Foreign Office in Bosnia and at the United Nations. He has written on the nuclear nonproliferation regime and Iran, as well as on U.S. foreign and defense policy.