New Players on the World Stage: Chinese Provinces and Indian States

http://www.brookings.edu/research/essays/2013/new-players-on-the-world-stage-print
Excerpt:

“In early February last year, Wang Lijun, the police chief of the Chinese megacity Chongqing, drove 200 miles through the night to seek refuge in the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu, the capital of neighboring Sichuan Province.”