Xi Jinping Thought and Its Implications for South Asia: A Comparative Analysis of India and Pakistan
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https://doi.org/10.55737/trt/FL25.174Keywords:
political thought, Leninist, Confucian, synthesis, South AsiaAbstract
President Xi’s political thought (XPT) hybridizes Leninist essentials with the moral philosophies of Chinese intellectual heritage, particularly with Confucianism, forming a fused ideological structure. The paper conceptualized this synthesis as a New Mandate of Heaven that draws simultaneously on both traditional Chinese philosophies and philosophical underpinning of Marxism-Leninism. President Xi’s political thought is operationalized through five analytical dimensions: (1) political governance; (2) ideological foundations; (3) economic policy; (4) Chinese nationalism; and (5) global governance. Moreover, the paper examines its implications for the two nuclear South Asian states, Pakistan and India. The analysis concludes that Pakistan’s approach adopts a broadly receptive posture and aligns with XPT. In contrast, India’s policy is informed by a set of strategies that resist, perceiving XPT as a threat to its power projection in the region.
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