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The globalised economic changes is India and China have now become a global talk. The soothsayers all over the world have visualized a new Asian socio-economic order with the constellation of "the Tiger-Dragon" cluster in influencing the course and contours of the human life in the 21 century. The key question is whether India and China will be partners or rivals. If partners, how best to go beyond bilateral issues and ensure international peace, security, and stability. If rivals, how best to resolve areas of conflict and competition and drive the engine of growth through the irreversible cooperative partnership. This, Vellore Institute of Development Studies' (VIDS) commemorative (1996-2006) compendium, India and China in the Asian Century: Global Economic Power Dynamics, is drawn from well researched commentary papers and documents by 36 prominent journalists, eminent diplomats, academicians, scholars and leading trade and commerce strategists. The contents and coverage span from understanding the present position of modern "Asian Drama" dynamics delineating their inherent problems and new opportunities to carve out a strategic India-China global partnership. The book is divided into four broad areas of discursive debates: dialects and dynamics of "the Asian Century", China: the "Dragon's" development dimensions, India: the "Tigers" development strides and "The Asian Giants": global economic power dynamics. Appendices are full of macro socio-economic statistics of India and China in the context of world economy. The salient features of the recently issued joint declaration by the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Chinese President Hu Jintao on November 21, 2006 at New Delhi after a Summit Level Meeting is included as part of preface to understand the emergent testament of mutual trust and cooperation between two countries as global players. Here is a book that heralds new hope of economic prosperity in a globalised Asia. It will of invaluable referral website to students, researchers, cross-border trade strategists and policy programmers on the Indo-China international affairs.