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New humility for the hegemon 韬光养晦为称雄 NO ONE loves a huge neighbour. For all that, Indias relations with the countries that ring it areabysmal. Of the eight with which it shares a land or maritime boundary, only two can be saidto be happy with India: tiny Maldives, where India has the only foreign embassy and dispensesmuch largesse, and Bhutan, which has a policy of being happy about everything. Among itsother South Asian neighbours, the worlds biggest democracy is incredible mainly because ofits amazing ability to generate wariness and resentment. 没有国家喜欢与大国比邻而居。尽管如此，印度与其周边国家的关系只能用糟糕透顶来形容。在与其共壤或共海上边界的八个国家中，只有两个国家能说对印度感到满意：极小的马尔代夫和不丹。印度大使馆是马尔代夫境内唯一的外国大使馆，并在马尔大夫大行慷慨;不丹奉行与世无争的政策，对一切都感到满意。在其南亚邻居看来，印度让人产生戒心和愤恨的惊人能力，实在与世界最大民主国家难以匹配。 Until recently it operated a shoot-to-kill policy towards migrant workers and cattle rustlersalong its long border with Bangladesh. Over the years it has meddled madly in Nepals internalaffairs. In Myanmar India snuggles up to the countrys thuggish dictators, leaving thebeleaguered opposition to wonder what happened to Indias championing of democracy.Relations with Sri Lanka are conflicted. It treats China with more respect, but feuds with itabout its border. | 
