EVENTS

For the past eight years US-China relations have been marked by high tariffs, recriminations, and a growing arms race between the two countries. The Biden Administration, still there till January 2025, has carried out a policy of Challenge, Compete, and Cooperate while Trump has spoken in terms of higher tariffs and a more aggressive policy towards China. It is not clear what Kamala Harris's posture will be? Will a different policy be espoused or will it be a continuation of the Biden approach? What can the Chinese do? These questions will be the focus of discussion in this seminar.

About the Speaker

Amit Gupta is a Senior Advisor to the Forum of Federations, Ottawa, Canada and has also served as Faculty of the Department of International Security at the U.S. Air Force Air War College, Maxwell AFB. He has authored Building an Arsenal: The Evolution of Regional Power Force Structures (Praeger: 1997), and Global Security Watch—India (Praeger: 2012), and edited India’s Nuclear Security (Lynne Rienner: 2000), The Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific: Maritime Challenges, Opportunities, and Policies (Routledge: 2018), Strategic Stability in Asia (Ashgate: 2008), and Air Forces: Next Generation (Ashgate: 2020). In the realm of popular culture, he has written in academic journals and magazines and featured in ‘Doctor Who’, ‘The Defenders’, ‘Star Trek’, ‘International Cricket’, and ‘The Globalization of Sports’. Dr. Gupta received his education at the University of Delhi, and the Australian National University, and holds a doctoral degree from the University of Illinois. In his spare time, he coached the Air War College Soccer Team for the Jim Thorpe Inter-Services Competition, Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

About the Chair

Alka Acharya is Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where she has been teaching and guiding doctoral research since 1993. From April 2012 to March 2017, she was full-time Director and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Chinese Studies. She was Editor of the quarterly journal China Report (New Delhi) from 2005-2013. She was nominated by the Indian government as a member of 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 publications include, Crossing a Bridge of Dreams: 50 years of India-China (co-edited, 2001) China & India: Politics of Incremental Engagement, (2008) and most recently, Boundaries and Borderlands: A Century after the 1914 Simla Convention (Routledge, New York 2023). Her current research focuses on India-China-Russia Trilateral Cooperation. Since August 2022, she has assumed charge as Honorary Director of the ICS.

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