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.
22 Jun 2022
KK Venkatraman
China has set as a goal for the People’s Liberation Army to become a world class military power by mid-21st century. Towards this, China changed its military strategic guideline
Venue: Zoom Webinar
15 Jun 2022
Shyam Saran
In this magisterial book, acclaimed diplomat Shyam Saran writes the authoritative account of the India–China relationship and how China perceives our country. Saran starts his story with the rise and fall
Venue: Zoom Webinar
08 Jun 2022
Michael Kugelman, Chulanee Attanayake, Deep Pal
Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since independence, which has left the country unable to buy enough fuel, with people facing an acute scarcity of food and basic necessities.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
01 Jun 2022
Rajiv Ranjan, Weilin Pan, Shiran Victoria Shen, Shagufta Yasmin
In September 2020, speaking to the United Nations General Assembly, President Xi Jinping declared that China would peak its carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
25 May 2022
Noah Barkin, Gudrun Wacker, Arun K. Singh
EU-China ties have been strained in the last few years with ‘systemic rivalry’ becoming the defining prism of the relationship in the context of COVID-19 pandemic, US-China trade war, and closeness between Russia and China.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
18 May 2022
Amita Batra, G. Venkat Raman
The ongoing trade war between the United States and China and the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the vulnerability of complex global supply chains to ongoing structural changes
Venue: Zoom Webinar
11 May 2022
Ananth Krishnan, Stanly Johny
The withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan has left a lasting impact on both Afghanistan’s future and on Asian geopolitics. It has also brought China into focus.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
04 May 2022
Amb. Gautam Bambawale, Lt. Gen. DS Hooda, Senior Colonel Zhou Bo, Mr. Sushant Singh
5 May 2022 marks the second anniversary of the current crisis in Eastern Ladakh, the deadliest such since 1962 and follows a series of such crises since 2013. On 5 May 2020, the first clash occurred resulting in injuries to several soldiers on both sides.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
27 Apr 2022
Nirupama Rao
Nirupama Rao’s book ‘The Fractured Himalaya: India Tibet China 1949 to 1962’ (Penguin Random House India, 2021) is a history of the diplomacy between India and China during a crucial period of their early nationhood.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
13 Apr 2022
Pankaj K Jha, Lucio Blanco Pitlo III, Surbhi Moudgil
China’s sweeping claims of sovereignty over extensive areas of the South China Sea (SCS) and non-adherence of the UN Convention on Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) has far-reaching implications beyond the region.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
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