China has similar fears. For over a decade beginning in the late 1950s, China has suspected it could face a two-front challenge—from its east (along the Pacific front) as well as from its southwest (along the Himalayan front). The threat began to subside around the 1970s, following the growing divergence between India and the US, and the US-China convergence—a result of the Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s—in 1971. In more recent years, China’s perception of the threat has resurfaced due to the deepening of India-US strategic convergence since 2008, a relationship it perceives as aimed at countering and containing its rise.
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