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Question
Why has India refused to sign the C.T.B.T.?
Solution
India has opposed international treaties aimed at non-proliferation because they were selectively applicable to the non-nuclear powers and legitimised the monopoly of five nuclear powers. Thus, India opposed NPT in 1995 and refused to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
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Explain India's nuclear policy.
No region exists in a vacuum. It is influenced by outside powers and events no matter how much it may try to insulate itself from non-regional powers. China and the United States remain key players in South Asian politics. Sino-Indian relations have improved significantly in the last ten years, but China's strategic partnership with Pakistan remains a major irritant. The demands of development and globalisation have brought the two Asian giants closer, and their economic ties have multiplied rapidly since 1991.
Study the paragraph given above carefully and answer the following questions:-
i) Which two countries have been referred to as 'outside powers’?
ii) Which are the two Asian giants and why have they been called so?
iii) China's strategic partnership with Pakistan is a major irritant for which country and why?
