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Sino-Indian bilateral ties at the start of the 21st century saw the two sides putting behind them the contretemps that followed India's 1998 nuclear tests and rapid growth of their economic interactions. It soon began to be claimed that economic imperatives would be the new driver in their relationship, one that many held also would be the defining relationship of the new century. However, neither the sentiment nor the expression that it engendered, namely, 'Chindia,' retains much salience now at the beginning of a new decade.