Flying high beneath the wings of red dragon; Cat's paw states and rising Chinese hegemony in South Asia

Abstract

In the geopolitical context, hegemonic consistency is not going to be realistic or practical when there are no proxy states (cat'spaw) under the thumb of power and rule of leading supremacy. In other words, the stability of a certain global hegemony is not realistic when a leading state cannot keep the control over proxy states, which are more or less in persuading power in their own terms and strategies in a dynamically competitive geopolitical agenda. Which, we identify here as the fact that magnetising, and at the same time weakening states and their politics to be 'unconditionally opportunistic' in persuading power and neo-liberal economic prosperity. Recent experience from China-Sri Lanka bilateral relationships indicates how the 'Chinese aid - the dragon kiss' uses its material and normative forms of power to cripple the intensity for better cooperation along with the neighboring states in South Asian region. This moment in the history is the history of financial capital, which is indistinct to foresee and self-destructive in numerous.