Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions: No reg

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions: 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. (i) Which two countries have been referred to as outside powers? (ii) Which are the two Asian giants and why they have been called so? (iii) China’s strategic partnership with Pakistan is a major irritant for which country and why?

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• The US and China.

• India and China, because both of them have been considered as rising economic powers in the world.

• India, because China has been seen as a contributor to Pakistan’s nuclear programme.