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.
09 Mar 2022
Hans M. Kristensen, Jayant Prasad
China’s nuclear arsenal is undergoing the most dramatic modernization since China first acquired nuclear weapons 57 years ago. In addition to increasing road-mobile ballistic missiles
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02 Mar 2022
David Arase
The rollout and development of BRI cooperation is seen as a dynamic process and is discussed in terms of five successive phases: 1) Rollout; 2) Routinization; 3) Community of Shared Destiny
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23 Feb 2022
Rear Admiral Michael McDevitt, US Navy (Retd), Ms. Darshana M. Baruah, Dr. Collin Koh, Captain Kamlesh Kumar Agnihotri, Indian Navy (Retd.)
The People's Liberation Army aspires to be a ‘world class’ military by 2049 in support of China's goal of becoming a global power. Within the PLA, the People's Liberation Army Navy's (PLAN)
Venue: Zoom Webinar
16 Feb 2022
Harryanto Aryodiguno, Chih-yu Shih, Te-Jung Liao, Wei-Chun Liao, Yuzhou Wang
East Asia became what it appears to be today during the Cold War, ironically through the divide and rivalry in the alleged region between members of the two Blocs/camps led respectively
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09 Feb 2022
Jenny Chan
Between the wave of 18 young worker suicides at Foxconn facilities in 2010 and the outbreak of coronavirus at the end of 2019, we (Jenny Chan, Mark Selden and Pun Ngai) engaged
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02 Feb 2022
Ritu Agarwal
Poverty in China is often considered to be a rural problem. The official Chinese view is that the poverty is concentrated in certain geographical regions and Yunnan province is home to a considerable
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19 Jan 2022
Veda Vaidyanathan, Prolific Simbarashe Mataruse, Eve Nyemba, Farai Mutondoro, Josephine Chiname
This publication in discussion, ‘A Handbook of Zimbabwe - China Economic Relations’ is the outcome of a research study the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association
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12 Jan 2022
Madhavi Thampi
During World War II, several hundred Kazakhs from Xinjiang took refuge in Bhopal. Based on material culled from the National Archives of India, this presentation will explore
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22 Dec 2021
Shahana Thankachan
It is difficult to define what a “normal” state is in the current global system. One of the more accepted definitions however, of a “normal” state is one that has the ability
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15 Dec 2021
Veda Vaidyanathan, Madhurendra Jha, Tiasangla Longkumer, Shanky Chandra
In collaboration with the Harvard Yenching Institute (HYI), the ICS inaugurated the Institute of Chinese Studies-Harvard Yenching Institute (ICS-HYI) Joint Scholarship for Doctoral Research
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