Indian foreign policy already faces many challenges. The international scene has changed a great deal in the last two decades or so India has needed to adjust its foreign policy accordingly. The rapidity of china’s rise at the pace at which it has occurred and its impact on global affairs was not predicted with assurance. Many alarm bells are being rung that Chinese policies are unsustainable and that china is heading for a crisis. Many may wish that to happen so that muscle-flexing china is cut down to size its neighbours feel more comfortable. But no one can predict with certainty what lies ahead. We have to carefully weigh the china factor in seeking redistribution of power at the global level. The gap between India and china has grown so big that in any re-ordering of the world order china gain more with china’s world view, its sense of itself, its historical grievances and its territorially expansionist policies, India, which has serious differences with china, cannot be comfortable with a more powerful china within the international system