Belt and Road From the Ground Up

Jacob Mardell

Wednesday Seminar|4 March

 

Since March 2019, Jacob Mardell has been travelling overland from Brussels to Beijing, learning about Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects and their host countries. Passing through 21 countries in Southeast Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia he has visited Beijing-sponsored infrastructure projects, interviewed local experts and spoken to the public about their perceptions of China. In this seminar, Jacob shared his understanding of Xi Jinping’s foreign policy defining initiative, as well as explored some recurring themes and region-specific takeaways from his journey along the “Silk Road Economic Belt.

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India’s Strategic Choices to Engage China

Rajiv Ranjan

Wednesday Seminar |11 March

 

Rise of China is bringing structural adjustment to the post-cold-war word system and regional security architecture. Being a neighbour and emerging power, India has to devise smart strategies to engage China. A set of strategic choices, Balancing, Soft balancing, Hedging, Hard hedging and even Non-Alignment have been discussed by scholars. The talk attempted to test all these strategies and also to examine China’s strategies to engage India.

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CHINA REPORT
Volume 56 | Issue 1 | February 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
 

China & the Global Governance of the Refugee Crisis

Anjali Gupta|Issue No. 89 | March  2020
 
The discourse on the diversion of Brahmaputra often becomes hostage to linear thinking. This commentary highlights the dialectical thinking which plays a significant role in shaping Chinese strategic thought. Against this backdrop alternative..
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ICS ANALYSIS PAPER
 

Informal Meetings in Foreign Policy

Anu|Issue No. 90 | March  2020
 
India-China bilateral relationship has been largely looked at from the perspective of the 1962 war and the unresolved territorial dispute. Tibet has been at the very centre of this conundrum, which had its origin in the colonial period when India..
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ICS ANALYSIS PAPER
 

Xi Jinping and Chinese Power

Richard McGregor|Issue No. 91 | March   2020
 
On one hand, Xi has been hailed as China’s Chairman of Globalisation (CoG) and as the ‘Third Revolutionary’ (after Mao and Deng) of the new times; on the other hand, critics are less than impressed with the reversal of moderniser Deng Xiaoping’s...
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ICS OCCASIONAL PAPER
 
Governance of Government Middle Schools in Beijing and Delhi: Teacher Training, Career Advancement and Stakeholder Communication
Yifei Yan|Issue No. 42 | March   2020
 
The extensive and wide-ranging presence of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become a phenomenon which is here to stay. The proposal announced by President Xi Jinping in 2013 at Nazarbayev University envisioned China's reaching across the..
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ICS OCCASIONAL PAPER
 
Materialism in Chinese Society: The Historical, Cultural and Contemporary Context
Poonam Surie|Issue No. 43 | March 2020
 
Recent global trade developments, including a sluggish global economy, slowing trade, heightened trade disputes, and now an expected disruption on account of coronavirus in China has led to the recasting of an outward-looking economy’s..
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ICS BLOGS
 
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.
 
 
China and the Ongoing Iran - US Conflict
 
Bihu Chamadia
16 March
 
India’s Strategic Choices to Engage China
 
Amb. Biren Nanda
23 March
 
 
 
 
 
Coronavirus Crisis Will Test India’s Will to Boost Ties With China
 
G. Venkat Raman
The Quint | 5 March  
 
To Contain Coronavirus, Monitor and Communicate
 
Rama V. Baru
Hindustan Times | 6 March 
 
 
Combatting Coronavirus: Learning from China experience
 
Rajiv Ranjan
Observer Research Foundation | 12 March 
 
Coronavirus and the Mandate of Heaven
 
Ravi Bhoothalingam
Business Standard | 12 March 
 
 
Going regional
 
Shyam Saran
The Indian Express | 21 March 
 
Fang Fang: The ‘Conscience of Wuhan’ Amid Coronavirus Quarantine
 
Hemant Adlakha
The Diplomat | 23 March 
 
 
World Won’t be the Same Again
 
Shyam Saran
The Tribune | 24 March 
 
COVID-19 Should Make Us Re-Imagine the World Order
 
Zorawar Daulet Singh
Economic & Political Weekly | 28 March 
 
 
 
 
 
Economic Implications of COVID-19 
 

Prof. Amita Batra, Centre for South Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Wednesday Seminar | 8 April | Zoom Webinar | 3 PM

 

 

 
 
 

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