Santosh Pai

Wednesday Seminar | Zoom Webinar|13 May 2020

China was the first country to embark on a path to normalcy after the Covid-19 crisis. The groundwork for resumption of economic activity was laid out through a flurry of legislative and administrative activity at various levels on topics ranging from screening protocols for returning workers to tax sops for firms to re-start production. The talk examined some of the ideas underlying China’s policy toolkit as India starts its own path to economic recovery. Despite differences in the political systems and scale of industries, the speaker tried to find parallels in challenges faced.

Hemant Adlakha

Wednesday Seminar | Zoom Webinar|20 May 2020

Fang Fang is not a typical dissident like Liu Xiaobo and Xu Zhiyong, China’s two most well-known dissident voices in the past decade; neither did she challenge the CPC rule, nor has she ever uttered a word to replace China’s socialist system with the Western-style liberal democracy. Yet her simple, plain truth-speaking has rattled the party orthodoxy. Lu Xun, Chinese people’s most revered literary and cultural icon but loathed by the current regime, had said in 1927: “If modern China has to find its place, it must first find its voice.”

Rama V. Baru & Madhurima Nundy

Wednesday Seminar | Zoom Webinar  |27 May 2020

Much has been written on the public health response to COVID-19 since its outbreak in Wuhan, China. Many of the strategies adopted by the Chinese to contain the epidemic in Wuhan have informed countries across the world. As the pandemic progresses there are many gaps in knowledge of the virus, health systems preparedness, the effectiveness of behavioural modifications at the individual and community level. The pandemic has exposed fault lines in all of the above and provides an opportunity to reimagine public health interventions in China and India. Given the economic crisis that both countries are facing will public investments in health increase? Is there a vision for a comprehensive and integrated health services in both countries? Will recent policy initiatives bring back ‘publicness’ to the health systems in India and China?

Lt. Gen. D S Hooda (Retd.) & Lt. Gen. S L Narasimhan (Retd.)

Special Lecture | Zoom Webinar  |3 June 2020

The ICS Conversation explored the following issues: Impact of Covid-19 on the trajectory of China's ambitious programme of defence modernisation; fallout of the pandemic on China's ongoing defence restructuring and reforms, which are unprecedented in scope and character; China's/ Chinese PLA's stance, behaviour and security postures in specific theatres of South China Sea and India-China borders in the wake of Covid-19; recent Chinese incursions and stand-off situations along India-China borders; and implications for India of these developments and India's response.

Tracing the Informal: Analyzing Labour Legislation in China

Epidemics and their Urban Context: COVID-19 and Lessons from Wuhan

COVID-19 Pandemic and Contextualizing South Korea’s Success

China, WHO and the Covid-19 Pandemic