This talk is part of the FNVA’s Round Table titled as “Next Decade of India-China Relations: Scope for Policy Alternatives?”, held at the India International Centre, New Delhi – 2013.Jayadev Ranade, president of Centre for China Analysis Strategy and author Xi Jinping China's Third New Era elaborately explains how China had successfully handed over its leadership to a new corp of Chinese communist leaders. He further highlights the 18th Party Congress and the composition of the party's top leader. On India, he asserted Beijing's continual inroads in border encroachment which has increased drastically, destabilising India's neighbour (Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar), military deployment in occupied Tibet and restricting India's growing aspirations in its region.