Even though China’s role in South Asia has grown in the last decade, Beijing has little by way of policy or strategy when it comes to dealing with political instability in the region. For the third time in four years, a government has fallen in South Asia amid mass protests and demonstrations. Even though China’s role in South Asia has grown in the last decade, with offers of alternative models of financing and development governance, there is little by way of policy or strategy when it comes to Beijing dealing with political instability in South Asia. Deshpande noted in the 1980s, South Asia is not always an easy region for China to understand from a political perspective. This perspective does not always glue well with the reality of South Asia today.