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Despite the well-known concerns of small South Asian states, this chapter avoids mentioning China's debt-trap diplomacy, India's sovereignty concerns in PoK and China-occupied Trans-Karakoram Tract (p.136). Kashish Parpiani is right in assessing the institutionalization of the "China-threat" thesis, underlining that the current trends in US-India relations are independent of the China factor. China and South Asia: Changing Regional Dynamics, Development and Power Play: Rajiv Ranjan and Guo Changgang (Eds.). [Extracted from the article]