India also has to concentrate on managing 1.3 billion people while simultaneously emerging as a potential world power. Its relationship with China would dominate its foreign policy but for one thing—the Himalayas. Without the world’s tallest mountain range between them, what is a lukewarm relationship would probably be frosty. A glance at the map indicates two huge countries cheek by jowl, but a closer look shows they are walled off from each other along what the CIA’s World Factbook lists as 1,652 miles of border.
