14th Giri Deshingkar Memorial Lecture | US - China Relations in the Era of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping

Dr. Elizabeth C. Economy

Giri Deshingkar Memorial Lecture | Zoom Webinar|6 July 2020

 

Over the past several years, U.S.-China relations have deteriorated sharply. The two great powers are engaged in a profound competition over geo-strategic concerns, economic interests, and fundamental political values. Some political observers have gone so far as to raise the potential of a new Cold War. What domestic factors in each country are contributing to the ongoing and growing tensions between the United States and China? What measures might help arrest the current downward trajectory in the bilateral relationship? Dr. Elizabeth Economy discussed these issues, as well as their broader implications for other countries and for the future role of China and the United States on the global stage.

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ICS Conversation | India - China at an Inflection Point?

Amb. Gautam Bambawale, Prof. Rajesh Rajagopalan, Tom Miller

Special Lecture | Zoom Webinar|8 July 2020

 

India-China relations are currently passing through a period of intense stress following recent Chinese intrusions across the line of actual control (LAC) and the border clash on 15th June. However, even before recent incidents caused a sharp downturn, India-China relations were troubled by a host of outstanding issues and concerns. There is currently deep anxiety and anger in India and government is under pressure to review the overall relationship with China. The ICS Conversation explored whether India-China relations are at a turning point, and what are the options and policy instruments available to deal with China. It examined whether a modicum of normalcy will be restored to bilateral relations if there is an early resolution of multiple stand-offs along the LAC; and the likely trajectory of the relationship if the present border situation gets protracted. 

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COVID - 19 and the Two Determinisms in PRC

Prof. Ji Zhe

Special Lecture | Zoom Webinar  |15 July 2020

 

Cultural determinism and institutional determinism have been the primary instruments used by the CPC to legitimate its post-1989 authoritarianism, but the latter has been much more explicitly emphasized and firmly enforced under Xi’s reign. The supposed successful response of the CPC to the COVID-19 pandemic finally provided the legitimacy it sought to propagandize its institutional advantage: the PRC’s victory and the failure of the West showed that autocracy can be far more effective than democracy in responding to crises. It is predictable that the threat to mankind’s freedom from the CPC will be greater and more aggressive in the post-COVID-19 world.

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India and China : The End of a Chapter?

Amb. Nirupama Rao

Wednesday Seminar | Zoom Webinar|22 July 2020

 

The Galwan incident of June 15/16 has been termed a near breaking point in India-China relations. It has prompted a re-think of the entire gamut of bilateral interaction between the two Asian giants. From leadership-level summits, to border management, to trade and investment, to people-to-people ties -- is every aspect of bilateral interaction up for re-definition and a shift in course? More fundamentally, why has China chosen the path of hostility and provocation towards India? Is this attitude a part and parcel of China’s self-absorbed campaign to ascend to global paramountcy, as the power and prestige of the United States declines? What implications do the tensions between India and China have for the Indo-Pacific? And, how will they impact the already significant inroads that China has made in South Asia? 

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Conscripting Kinsmen: Labour Contractors and Peasant Workers in India and China

T G Suresh

Wednesday Seminar | Zoom Webinar|29 July 2020

 

The thekedar in India and the baogong tou in China are seemingly similar social actors; both are vernacular designations for labour contractors who typically band together a group of rural peasants for working in the urban sectors. Familiar to labour historians in the colonial context of India and in the late imperial and Republican periods in China, they are essentially traditional labour recruiters. Their historical presence is assumed to be confine to pre-industrial period or found most active in agrarian contexts. But what seems like an apparent paradox, the thekadar and the baogong tou made dramatic reappearance when India and China were ushered into the new economies since the early 1990s. 

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China, US, and Changing Asian Geopolitics

Prof. C Raja Mohan

Wednesday Seminar | Zoom Webinar  |5 August 2020

 

For four decades and more, a harmonious relationship between China and the US has been the dominant force shaping the geopolitics of Asia. This talk will explore the prospects of the breakdown of the US-China relationship and its consequences for Asian geopolitics. It will look at three broad scenarios - the fragmentation of the regional order, the emergence of a Sino-Centric Asia, and the restoration of US primacy - as a means to understand the unfolding regional dynamic and its implications for India

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CHINA REPORT
Volume 56 | Issue 2 | May 2020
 
The China Report is a refereed journal in the field of social sciences and international relations. It encourages free expression and discussion of different ideas and approaches which assist in better understanding China and its neighbours. It welcomes and offers a platform for original research from a multi-disciplinary perspective, in new and emerging areas, by scholars and research students. It seeks to promote analysis and vigorous debate on all aspects of Sino-Indian relations, India–China comparative studies and multilateral and bilateral initiatives and collaborations across Asia.
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ICS ANALYSIS PAPER
 

Pompeo Defies Covid-19 and Visits Jerusalem with 'Mission China' Agenda

Hemant Adlakha |Issue No. 105 | June 2020
 
Less than three years ago, China and Israel marked 25 years of their bilateral diplomatic relations. While Beijing celebrated the occasion also to show to the world China’s..
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ICS ANALYSIS PAPER
 

The Indo-Pacific: Concept, Contestation and Cooperarion

Sanjana Krishnan|Issue No. 106 | June 2020
 
The Indo-Pacific is a region consisting of the western and central Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, excluding the temperate and polar regions of the two. They are connected..
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ICS ANALYSIS PAPER
 

South China Sea Geopolitics and the Shadow of Covid-19

Yogendra Kumar |Issue No. 107 | July 2020
 
The current strategic discourse is one of speculation as to whether the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating existing geopolitical trends or generating trends for a new world..
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ICS ANALYSIS PAPER
 

Domestic Imperatives behind Chinese Aggression at the India-China Border in 2020

Sriparna Pathak |Issue No. 108 | July 2020
 
The military clash between India at Galwan has signaled a new low in India-China relations. While it has been on for three months, and several attempts are made to predict the ..
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ICS ANALYSIS PAPER
 

To Craft a Covid-19 Narrative, China needs Africa

Veda Vaidyanathan |Issue No. 109 | July 2020
 
China faces tremendous international scrutiny concerning the initial mismanagement and lack of transparency surrounding its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, which..
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ICS ANALYSIS PAPER
 

Are US and China on the verge of a Cold War 2.0?

Zorawar Daulet Singh |Issue No. 110 | July 2020
 
A few months ago, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi recently declared that “some political forces in the US "are pushing US and China “to the brink of a new Cold War.”
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ICS ANALYSIS PAPER
 

Hazarding Hazards: An Assessment of China's Workplace Safety Since Year 2000

Sanjana Krishnan|Issue No. 111 | July 2020
 
COVID-19 has (re)ignited conversations on workplace safety across the world, thus necessitating renewed attention on policies and practices in this regard. The International Labour..
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ICS ANALYSIS PAPER
 

Sino - Indian Border Dispute: Explained in Constructivist Paradigm

Reena Bhatiya |Issue No. 112 | July 2020
 
The intractable Sino-India border dispute has been persistently affecting the India-China bilateral relations. The latest skirmishes at the Galwan valley testify that. While several attempts have been made to comprehend as well..
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ICS ANALYSIS PAPER
 

The Emergence of a New Kingpin in the Pacific: China's Narrative

Tanishka |Issue No. 113 | July 2020
 
The People’s republic of China has become diplomatic partner and the second largest aid provider to many Pacific Island countries in the last two decades. It has won..
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ICS ANALYSIS PAPER
 

Clash of Narratives: The US-China Propaganda War Amid the Global Pandemic

Preksha Shree Chhetri |Issue No. 114 | July 2020
 
In addition to traditional spheres of competition such as military and economic rivalry, the US-China rivalry is shifting into new areas. The outbreak of Covid-19 seems to have ..
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ICS OCCASIONAL PAPER
 
What Future for India-China Economic Relations?
Ravi Bhoothalingam|Issue No. 53 | July 2020
 
India today faces a ‘triple whammy’: the Covid crisis, the economic downturn and the China challenge. To confront these issues and emerge successful will require a massive ..
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ICS TRANSLATIONS
 
Mao Zedong on Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute
Hemant Adlakha |Issue No. 1 | July   2020
 
Following PLA’s decisive victory over the Indian forces in the 1962 “self-defensive counter war,” Mao Zedong was asked to give his assessment of the PLA’s remarkable feat. Chief of Staff, Commander Luo Ruiqing, while submitting his g..
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ICS TRANSLATIONS
 
China: Bubble that will never pop?
Hemant Adlakha|Issue No. 2 | July 2020
 
中国:永远不破的“泡沫”?China: Bubble that will never pop? The article by LIU Qiudi 刘裘蒂is the first in Chinese language discussing Thomas Orliks’ most recent book Chin ..
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ICS TRANSLATIONS
 
Wu Shicun: More frequent US military comes near us, more likely it is to cause “guns and misfires”
Hemant Adlakha |Issue No. 3 | July   2020
 
Professor Wu Shicun 吴士存 is President of China SCS Research Institute. The USS Ronald Reagan and USS Nimitz returned to SCS and conducted military exercises on July 1..
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ICS TRANSLATIONS
 
Wu Jinglian: Do we really need experts who only know “jargons?”
Hemant Adlakha|Issue No. 4 | July 2020
 
The article is written by Professor Wu Jinglian, 90, one of the preeminent economists in P R China today. Professor Wu specializes in economic policy as it applies to China’s ongoing economic reform. The article first appeared on the we ..
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ICS TRANSLATIONS
 
The Chinese View: China’s Long Range Missiles not threatened by Indian Air Defence Systems  
Hemant Adlakha |Issue No. 5 | July   2020
 
The article first appeared on the blog Jiang Jiang Za Tan She on July 2, 2020. But since has been picked up and re-circulated by most media outlets on the websites. The artic..
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ICS TRANSLATIONS
 
Epidemic in the Eyes of “Three Generals of Chinese Sci-fi”
Shanky Chandra |Issue No. 6 | July 2020
 
According to an online conspiracy theory, the American author Dean Koontz predicted the coronavirus outbreak in 1981. His novel ‘The Eyes of Darkness’ referred to a deadly virus called "Wuhan-400" - strangely predicting the Chinese ..
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The ICS Blog is a platform for an open dialogue that aims to inform and enlighten, especially young scholars and analysts on contemporary issues related to China and East Asia.
 
 
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Understanding the Line of Actual Control with Shyam Saran
 
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The Chinese View: China’s Long Range Missiles not threatened by Indian Air Defence Systems
 
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Sinology, Chinese Studies to a Clash of Civilizations: Studying China in Europe
 

Speaker: Dr. Ravni Thakur and Chair: Dr. Madhavi Thampi

Wednesday Seminar | Webex Webinar | 2 September 2020 @ 3 PM IST

 

 

 
 
 

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