Coterminous with the Institute, is the weekly Wednesday Seminar, which has been held uninterruptedly for the last four decades. The topics span an enormous range and attract students, experts, practitioners and laypersons alike. These seminars provide an opportunity for interested people to have access to informed discussions on various aspects of China and are ample evidence that the sections within India, which are interested in knowing and learning about China are widening and enlarging.
18 Dec 2024
Ping-Kuei Chen
The 2024 Taiwanese presidential election resulted in Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) assuming office. Despite holding a majority in the legislature, the opposition coalition has not enjoyed strong support from the public.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
11 Dec 2024
Severin Kuok
In the modern construct, the concept of diaspora not only encompasses groups of people who were forced to leave their homelands under unfavourable conditions, but also those who migrate voluntarily in search of trade, work, or other reasons.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
04 Dec 2024
Mei-chuan Wei
Cross-strait relations are central to Taiwan’s development. Principles of cross-strait policies have been evolved along the process of the country’s postwar development.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
27 Nov 2024
Renu Rana
The year 2024 marks the 60th anniversary of China’s first nuclear test and the adoption of its no-first-use policy. Long before China joined the nuclear club in 1964, Mao Zedong famously dismissed nuclear weapons as a “paper tiger.”
Venue: Zoom Webinar
13 Nov 2024
Kulkarni Mandar Vijay
In the larger context of a free, open, inclusive, and rules-based Indo-Pacific regional construct, it is important to evaluate major dichotomies stemming from diverse approaches to ‘regionalism’ adopted by India...
Venue: Zoom Webinar
06 Nov 2024
Laurie Pearcey
In 2019, the State Council of the People’s Republic of China unveiled its Outline Development Plan for the Development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA).
Venue: Zoom Webinar
30 Oct 2024
Titli Basu
As Japan heads for its Lower House election, effective leadership is crucial for delivering good governance and manoeuvring through colossal demographic, economic, security, and strategic challenges amid fluid geopolitics.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
23 Oct 2024
Riva Ganguly Das
According to records available with the Shanghai Municipal Archives Bureau, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore visited China in April and May 1924 and later in March and June 1929 and stopped at Shanghai during each of these trips.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
16 Oct 2024
Karl Chee Leong LEE
What are the converging interests between India’s Act East Policy (AEP) and Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy (NSP) in Southeast Asia? Having been implemented independently from each other ever since their conceptualisations
Venue: Zoom Webinar
09 Oct 2024
Anand P. Krishnan
The electronics industry, especially smartphones, has witnessed the biggest expansion of Chinese investments since 2014, in an adverse and competing geography like India.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
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