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.
                                                                                
                    
                      11 Oct 2023
                    
                    
                      
                                            Dr. Wenjing Gao, Prof. Manish
                                                  
                                                      The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), or as the Chinese call it, Yīdài Yīlù, (一带一路), is a comprehensive global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the PRC government in 2013 to invest in various countries ...
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                      04 Oct 2023
                    
                    
                      
                                            Dr. Justin Joseph
                                                  
                                                      China and India are two significant economies with increasing influence in global politics. ‘Greening’ can be understood as a process in which an ecological turn is introduced in the policy formation as well as its implementation.
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                      27 Sep 2023
                    
                    
                      
                                            Dr. Prachi Aggarwal
                                                  
                                                      China and Russia (including the period of the former Soviet Union) have shared a symbiotic relationship.
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                      20 Sep 2023
                    
                    
                      
                                            Ms. Samantha Custer, Ms. Anthea Mulakala, Ms. Linda Calabrese
                                                  
                                                      Unveiled by Xi Jinping in his address at the 76th United Nations General Assembly in September 2021, the GDI has sought to build on the organization’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals for Stronger, Greener, and Healthier Global Development. 
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                      13 Sep 2023
                    
                    
                      
                                            Virendra Sahai Verma
                                                  
                                                      The People's Republic of China (PRC) has set an ambitious goal to become the world's leading military and economic power by the middle of the 21st century.
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                      30 Aug 2023
                    
                    
                      
                                            Amb. Kishan S. Rana, Dr. Hemant Adlakha
                                                  
                                                      A number of reports in the international media have narrated how the youth in China, currently facing the highest rates of unemployment, are going through a crisis of de-motivation, even despondency.
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                      23 Aug 2023
                    
                    
                      
                                            Dr. Tilak Jha
                                                  
                                                      China is one of the world’s most active digital societies, where netizens have influenced the government's response to several social, economic, and environmental issues.
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                      16 Aug 2023
                    
                    
                      
                                            Peter J. Hudson
                                                  
                                                      The talk explores the rapid changes in Japan’s energy and climate change policies in the past decade, after the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011. After the nuclear accident and reactor shutdowns
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                      09 Aug 2023
                    
                    
                      
                                            Mr. Sang-Woo Lim
                                                  
                                                      Korea’s Indo-Pacific Strategy is the embodiment of Korea’s aspiration to reach out beyond Korea’s immediate neighbourhood. It is not about Korea reactively responding to a certain country or a certain international trend.
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                      02 Aug 2023
                    
                    
                      
                                            Ms. Neha Mishra
                                                  
                                                      According to the IEA’s Sustainable Development Scenario, the demand for critical minerals, particularly rare earth elements such as nickel, copper, lithium, and cobalt, and others are expected to quadruple
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