SHAGUFTA YASMIN

Shagufta Yasmin is working on her Ph.D. thesis at the Centre of East Asian Studies, School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). She completed her M.Phil. from the School of International Relations, JNU. She has completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Chinese language and literature from School of Languages, JNU. She went on Ministry of HRD (Government of India) scholarship (2010-2011), to Shenyang Normal University for one year of advanced Chinese language training. Her thesis is on ‘Chinese Environmental Diplomacy: A Study of its Environmental Cooperation with the United States of America and India, 1997-2015’. She has taught Chinese language at the Central University of Jharkhand. For her doctoral research work, she went to the School of International Studies, Beijing University and Harvard Yenching Institute, Harvard University, as a part of her ICS-HYI Joint Doctoral Fellowship (2017-2020). As a part of this program, for language proficiency and research, she also went to Central China Normal University, Wuhan.

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China’s Environmental Diplomacy: From Sovereignty to Authoritarian Environmentalism
10 Dec 2021

In December 2020, at the Climate Ambition Summit which was held to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate accord, President Xi Jinping while addressing via video link