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The book Eclipsing the West: China, India and the Forging of a New World (Manchester University Press, 2025) charts the development trajectories of China and India since 1947/8. China is now vying with the United States to be the largest economy in the world and a technology leader, while India could emerge as the second largest economy and global technology leader by the middle of the century. How will these two rising powers navigate their way on the world stage and shape the emerging order? What will be the implications for commerce, international law and global public goods such as climate? This Wednesday Seminar explores such a series of scenarios offered in the book which chart different futures, offering analyses of how China and India may transform the global system.

Speaker

Sir Vince Cable is currently Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, Nottingham and Shenzhen universities and Chair of several UK based companies. He is a former Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills and President of the Board of Trade in the Coalition government (2010-15); a former leader of the Liberal Democrat party; and MP for Twickenham. He was previously a professional economist including the Chief Economist for Shell.

Chair

Alka Acharya is Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi and former Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for East Asian Studies (Chinese Studies), School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). She was the Editor of the journal China Report (2005- 2013). Her recent book is Boundaries and Borderlands: A Century after the 1914 Simla Convention (2023, Edited). She was nominated by the Indian government to the India-China Eminent Persons Group (2006-2008) and was a member of the National Security Advisory Board of the Government of India for two terms, 2006-2008 and 2011-2012. Her current research focuses on India-China-Russia Trilateral Cooperation.

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