'Flying high beneath the wings of red dragon’ cats-paw states and rising Chinese hegemony in South Asia

Abstract

Introduction

In the geopolitical globality, the stability of a certain global hegemony is not realistic when a leading state cannot keep the control over proxy states. The proxy states are more or less in persuading power in their own terms and strategies in a dynamically competitive geopolitical agenda. The ‘Proxy’ refers to the alternative agents who can be instrumented momentarily with a greater stand point of strategicopportunisms of capitalist world power.

Generally, this kind of research identify the fact that magnetising, weakening states and their politics to be ‘unconditionally opportunistic’ in persuading power and neo-liberal economic prosperity. This study objectifies the role of China which is the Communist head with Capitalist body. Some of the existing literatures also provide an imperative access to this statement (e.g. see: Foot, 2006; Callahan, 2008; LUE, 2010). Recent experience from China-Sri Lanka bilateral relationships indicates that how China uses ‘its aid – the dragon kiss’ (material and normative forms of power) to cripple the intensity for better cooperation along with the neighboring states in South Asian region.