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CV Jabin T. JACOB (郑嘉宾), PhD Associate Professor Department of
International Relations and Governance Studies Shiv Nadar
University Gautam Buddha Nagar Uttar Pradesh 201 314, INDIA Adjunct
Research Fellow National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi Associate
Editor, China Report Mob: +91-8800 26 4517 [email protected] |
http://indiandchina.com/ | @jabinjacobt
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AREAS OF INTEREST India-China and China-South Asia relations;
Sino-Indian border areas; centre-province relations in China and
India and impact on foreign policy; Chinese and Indian
worldviews
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS India’s China policymaking; Chinese
‘belt and road initiative’ in South Asia; Chinese provinces and
foreign policy
ACADEMIC PROFILE Ph.D. in Chinese Studies, Centre for East Asian
Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi, India (2008). Thesis: The Provinces in
China: Provincialism, Regionalism and Transnational Linkages since
the 1990s Mandarin Studies Program, National Chengchi University,
Taipei, Taiwan (2004-2006). M.Phil. in Chinese Studies, Centre for
East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi, India (2002). Dissertation: Student
Movements and State Response: The Impact of Chinese Government
Policies in Education since the ‘Turmoil’ of 1989
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M.A. in Politics and International Relations, Pondicherry
Central University, Pondicherry, India (2000). Dissertation:
Towards More Common Currencies: A Study of Optimum Currency Area
Literature B.A. in Economics, St. Berchmans’ College, Mahatma
Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India (1998).
RESEARCH & WORK EXPERIENCE Fellow (April 2012-March 2018),
Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi. Assistant Director (October
2011-August 2016), Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi. Visiting
Research Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, January-March 2012.
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies,
New Delhi, July 2010-June 2011. Hermès Post-Doctoral Fellow,
SPIRIT, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, France, October
2009-June 2010. Research Fellow, Institute of Peace and Conflict
Studies, New Delhi, August 2006-September 2009. Research Officer,
Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi, September
2003-August 2004.
PUBLICATIONS Editorships of Books and Journal Special Issues
co-editor with Hoang The Anh, China and Its Neighbourhood:
Perspectives from India and Vietnam (New Delhi: Pentagon, 2017).
co-editor with Hoang The Anh, (in Vietnamese) Trang Quoc voi lang
Gieng: Quan Diem Viet Nam va An Do (Hanoi: Vietnam Social Sciences
Press, 2017). co-editor with Maj. Gen. Dipankar Banerjee (retd),
Military Confidence-Building and India-China Relations: Fighting
Distrust (New Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2013). co-editor with D. Suba
Chandran, India’s Foreign Policy: Old Problems, New Challenges (New
Delhi: Macmillan, 2011).
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co-editor with Alka Acharya, Special Issue: China and South
Asia, China Report, Vol. 46, No. 3, August 2010. Peer-Reviewed
Journal Articles and Occasional Papers ‘Connectivity Models in the
Indo-Pacific: An Indian Perspective’, Maritime Affairs: Journal of
the National Maritime Foundation of India, June 2018. ‘China’s Belt
and Road Initiative: Perspectives from India’, China & World
Economy, Vol. 25, No. 5, September-October 2017, 78-100. ‘Does
China have a Maritime Grand Strategy?’, China Analysis, European
Council on Foreign Relations, October 2017. ‘China in Southeast
Asia: The Search for a Chinese Model of International Relations’,
Special Issue: China and Southeast Asia, China Report (New Delhi,
India), Vol. 48, No. 3, August 2012, pp. 317-326. ‘美国 “转向” 亚洲:
对印度外交和安全政策的影响’ (Meiguo “zhuanxiang” Yazhou: Dui Yindu waijiao he
anquan zhengce de yingxiang) [The US “Pivot” to Asia: Impact on
Indian Foreign and Security Policies], China International Strategy
Review 2012, Centre for International Strategic Studies (Peking
University, PRC), June 2012, 62-72. ‘For a New Kind of ‘Forward
Policy’: Tibet and Sino-Indian Relations’, Special Issue:
Revisiting the China-India Border Dispute, China Report, Vol. 47,
No. 2, May 2011, 135-148. ‘The Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute:
Sub-National Units as Ice-Breakers’, Eurasia Border Review
(Hokkaido University, Japan), Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 2011, 35-45.
co-author with Oliver Stuenkel, ‘Rising powers and the future of
democracy promotion: the case of Brazil and India’, Portuguese
Journal of International Affairs (Lisbon), No. 4, Autumn/Winter
2010, 23-30. ‘The India-Myanmar Borderlands: Guns, Blankets and
Bird Flu’, SPIRIT Occasional Papers, No. 6, Sciences Po (Bordeaux,
France), October 2010. ‘China-Pakistan Relations: Reinterpreting
the Nexus’, Special Issue: China and South Asia, China Report, Vol.
46, No. 3, August 2010, 216-228. (co-author), ‘India’s Disaster
Relief Diplomacy’, Indian Foreign Affairs Journal (New Delhi), Vol.
4, No. 2, April-June 2009, 63-80. ‘Manmohan Singh’s Visit to China:
New Challenges Ahead’, China Report, Vol. 44, No. 1, January-March
2008, 63-70.
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‘The Qinghai-Tibet Railway and Nathu La – Challenge and
Opportunity for India’, China Report (New Delhi), Vol. 43, No. 1,
January 2007, 83-87. ‘European Integration and Lessons for China’,
Asia Europe Journal (Heidelberg, Germany), Vol. 4, No. 4, December
2006, 511-521. ‘Direct Flights Take Off: Cross-Straits Relations
Remain Grounded’, China Report, Vol. 41, No. 2, April-June 2005,
331-339. ‘China’s Position on Iraq vis-à-vis UNSCR 1441’, China
Report, Vol. 39, No. 3, July-September 2003, 407-415. Contributions
to Edited Volumes ‘The “Regional” Approach in Xi Jinping’s
Governance Strategy’ in Manoranjan Mohanty (ed.), China at a
Turning Point: Perspectives after the 19th Party Congress (New
Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2019), 180-192. ‘China’s Evolving Strategy
in the Indian Ocean Region: Risks in China’s MSR Initiative’ in
David Brewster (ed). India and China at Sea: Strategic Competition
in the Maritime Domain (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018),
208-223.
‘The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and the
China-India-Pakistan Triangle’ in Jean-Marc F. Blanchard (ed).
China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative and South Asia: A Political
Economic Analysis of its Purposes, Perils, and Promise (London:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 105-136. ‘China’s ‘New Tianxia’ Strategy
and the Indian Response’, in Josukutty C. A. and J. Prabhash (eds)
Foreign Policy and Security of India (New Delhi: New Century
Publications, 2017), 141-159. ‘China-Vietnam Relations: In Steady
State Despite Tensions’ in Jabin T. Jacob and Hoang The Anh (eds),
China and Its Neighbourhood: Perspectives from India and Vietnam
(New Delhi: Pentagon, 2017), 12-26. co-author with Hoang The Anh
‘Introduction: China as a Common Concern’ in Jabin T. Jacob and
Hoang The Anh (eds), China and Its Neighbourhood: Perspectives from
India and Vietnam (New Delhi: Pentagon, 2017), 1-11. ‘China in
2016: The Pursuit of Stability and Power’ in Vijay Sakhuja (ed.).
2017. Pentagon Yearbook 2017: South Asia Defence and Strategic
Perspective (New Delhi: Pentagon Press), 62-75. ‘Remembering 1962
in India, 50 years on’, in Amit R. Das Gupta and Lorenz M. Luthi
(eds), The Sino-Indian War of 1962: New Perspectives (London and
New York: Routledge, 2017), 233-252.
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‘Is the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor a Threat to India?’ in
J. S. Bajwa (ed.), China: Threat or Challenge? (New Delhi: Lancer,
2017), 336-352. ‘On the China “Threat” to India’, in J. S. Bajwa
(ed.), China: Threat or Challenge? (New Delhi: Lancer, 2017),
29-37. ‘India-Taiwan Relations: Constrained or Self-Constraining?’,
in Jagannath P. Panda (ed.), India-Taiwan Relations in Asia and
Beyond: The Future (New Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2016), 37-47. ‘Role
of Major Powers in the Indo-Pacific Region’, in Gurpreet S Khurana
and Antara Ghosal Singh (eds), India and China: Constructing A
Peaceful Order in the Indo-Pacific (New Delhi: National Maritime
Foundation, 2016), 79-89. ‘China’s Provinces and Foreign Policy:
Lessons and Implications for India and its States’ in Subir Bhaumik
(ed.), Agartala Doctrine: A Proactive Northeast in India Foreign
Policy (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016), 253-270. ‘China
and Myanmar’s 2015 Elections: plus ça change, plus c'est la même
chose?’, in Amrita Dey (ed.), Myanmar: Moving Towards Elections
2015 (Kolkata: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies,
2016), 79-89.
‘Thinking East Asia, Acting Local: Constraints, Challenges, and
Contradictions in Indian Public Diplomacy’ in Jan Melissen and Yul
Sohn (eds), Understanding Public Diplomacy in East Asia: Middle
Powers in a Turbulent Region (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015),
155-178. ‘Arunachal Pradesh in the Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute:
Constant Claims, Changing Politics’, in Gurudas Das, C. Joshua
Thomas and Nani Bath (eds), Voices from the Border: Response to
Chinese Claim over Arunachal Pradesh (New Delhi: Pentagon Press,
2015), 48-62. ‘Friend, Foe or Competitor? Mapping the Indian
Discourse on China’, in Happymon Jacob (ed.), Does India Think
Strategically? India’s Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy (New
Delhi: Manohar, 2014), 245-288. ‘Centre-Province Relations in
China: Ebbs and Flows’, in C. V. Ranganathan and Sanjeev Kumar
(eds), The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China:
A Major Turning Point for China (New Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2013),
117-131. ‘Bilateral Agreements and Sino-Indian Confidence-Building
Measures’, in Dipankar Banerjee and Jabin T. Jacob, Military
Confidence-Building and India-China Relations: Fighting Distrust
(New Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2013), 151-161. co-author with Dipankar
Banerjee, ‘Sino-Indian Military CBMs: Efficacy and Influences’, in
Dipankar Banerjee and Jabin T. Jacob, Military Confidence-Building
and India-China Relations: Fighting Distrust (New Delhi: Pentagon
Press, 2013), 1-11.
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‘China’s Defence White Papers: A Political Reading’, in Gurmeet
Kanwal and Dhruv C. Katoch (eds) China's Defence Policy: Indian
Perspective (New Delhi: Lancer Publishers, 2011), 33-42. ‘Rising
India’s Foreign Policy: A Partial Introduction’, in D. Suba
Chandran and Jabin T. Jacob (eds), India’s Foreign Policy: Old
Problems, New Challenges (New Delhi: Macmillan, 2011), 1-22.
‘Five-Party Talks in South Asia: Guaranteeing Borders’, in D. Suba
Chandran and Jabin T. Jacob (eds), India’s Foreign Policy: Old
Problems, New Challenges (New Delhi: Macmillan, 2011), 287-300.
‘Border Provinces in Foreign Policy: China’s West and India’s
Northeast’, in Dilip Gogoi (ed.), Beyond Borders: India’s Look East
Policy and Northeast India (Guwahati: DVS Publishers, 2010),
126-147. co-author with Vibhanshu Shekhar, ‘Provincial Interests
and Foreign Policy: Indian States’ Responses to the Malaysian and
Kenyan Ethnic Crises’, in Amitabh Mattoo and Happymon Jacob (eds),
Shaping India’s Foreign Policy: People, Politics & Places (New
Delhi: Har-Anand Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2010), 141-171. ‘The
Politics of Referendums in Taiwan’, in Ger Yeong-kuang, Vinod
Joseph and Surendra Kumar (eds), Taiwan in the 21st Century (New
Delhi: Viva International, 2009), 12-36. ‘Chinese Strategic
Interests in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir’, in P. Stobdan and D. Suba
Chandran (eds), The Last Colony: Muzaffarabad-Gilgit-Baltistan
(Jammu: Center for Strategic and Regional Studies (CSRS),
University of Jammu, 2008), 125-156. ‘Beyond the McMahon Line’, in
Jaideep Saikia (ed.), Frontier in Flames: North East India in
Turmoil (New Delhi: Penguin, 2007), 170-185. ‘The Implications of
Direct Flights: Beijing in Taiwanese Politics’, in Anita Sharma and
Sreemati Chakrabarti (eds), Taiwan Today (New Delhi: Anthem Press,
2007), 22-41. Select Other Publications ‘China’s Belt and Road
Initiative and its implications for India’, Investigating
Infrastructure: Ecology, Sustainability and Society,
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, 25 February 2019. ‘Political Crisis in Sri
Lanka: China and the Maritime Dimension’, National Maritime
Foundation, 1 February 2019.
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‘India-Indonesia Ties: Chinese Elephant in the Room’, Indian
Defence Review, Vol. 33.3, July-September 2018. ‘What does India
think of China’s “Belt and Road” Initiative?’, ICS Occasional
Paper, No. 19, December 2017. ‘Explaining the India-China Standoff
at Doklam: Causes and Implications’, Aakrosh, Vol. 20, No. 77,
October 2017, 60-76. ‘Deciphering the Numbers: Employment in the
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor’, E-International Relations, 22
August 2017. ‘Contemporary India-China Relations: Of Copycats and
Hubris’, China-India Brief, No. 98, 23 July-8 August 2017, Lee Kuan
Yew School of Public Policy. ‘China in Central Asia: Controlling
the Narrative’, Indian Defence Review, Vol. 32.1, Jan-Mar 2017,
77-80. ‘Tough Talks: BRICS talks reveal dissension in the ranks’,
Strategic Vision for Taiwan Security, Vol. 5, Issue 30, December
2016, pp. 4-8. ‘What Economic Slowdown? Asia Looks at China’, Asia
Policy Brief, Bertelsmann Foundation, April 2016. ‘Taiwan’s 2016
Elections: Out with the Old Status Quo, In with the New Status
Quo’, ICS Analysis, No. 38, February 2016. ‘India and China’s “One
Belt, One Road” Initiative’, Nação e Defesa (Nation and Defense,
Instituto da Defesa Nacional, Lisboa, Portugal), No. 142, 2016,
56-71. ‘China and Vietnam: Neither Thick Friends nor Constant
Antagonists’, ICS Analysis, No. 30, May 2015. ‘China-Sri Lanka Ties
Post-Rajapaksa: Major Changes Unlikely’, ICS Analysis, No. 26,
January 2015. ‘Can Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi Establish an
Economic Partnership?’, Asia Society, 16 September 2014. ‘Boundary
Disputes’, in Joel Krieger (ed.), The Oxford Companion to
International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
‘India, China and the Coming US Drawdown in Afghanistan: A Choice
of Dilemmas’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLIX, No. 14, 5
April 2014, 24-27. ‘Political Economy of Infrastructure Development
in the Sino-Indian Border Areas’, China-India Brief, No. 22, Centre
on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,
12–25 February 2014.
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‘The Ladakh Stand-off: The New Norm in Sino-Indian Relations?’,
Associate Paper, Future Directions International, 28 May 2013.
‘India’s China Policy: Time to Overcome Political Drift’, RSIS
Policy Brief, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies,
Singapore, June 2012. ‘Thailand-Myanmar relations through the Prism
of their Border’, photo-essay, Southeast Asia News Review, Vol. 1
No. 2A May 2012, 20-23. ‘China-India Special Representatives Talks:
Moving Beyond the Boundary Dispute?’, RSIS Commentaries, No.
029/2012, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore,
20 February 2012. (republished as ‘China and India: moving beyond
the boundary dispute?‘ East Asia Forum, 27 February 2012.) ‘The
Future of China-Pakistan Relations after Osama bin Laden’,
Associate Paper, Future Directions International, 8 August 2011.
‘Alternative Strategies towards China: Charting India’s Course for
the Next Decade’, IPCS Issue Brief, No. 162, February 2011. ‘Chine
et Inde: deux puissances émergentes antagonistes’, (‘China and
India: Two Rising Powers at Loggerheads’,) Société de Stratégie –
AGIR (Paris), No. 44, December 2010, 43-56. ‘The EU, China and
India: The Promise of Trilateral Engagement’, Clingendael Asia
Forum, Clingendael Institute (the Hague), 1 February 2010.
‘Disaster Relief: Politics, Security Implications and Foreign
Policy’, 4th Berlin Conference on Asian Security 2009, 28-30
October 2009, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP, Berlin),
January 2010. ‘Not India’s Ocean: Perceptions of Chinese Presence
in the Indian Ocean’, Paper, Asia Centre Conference Series, Centre
d’études Asie (Paris), 22 October 2009. ‘China and Taiwan in 2030:
Conflict not Inevitable’, IDSA Opinion, Institute of Defence
Studies and Analyses (IDSA, New Delhi) 12 October 2009. ‘Towards a
New Asian Architecture: India and Ideology’, IPCS Issue Brief, No.
80, August 2008. ‘Shaping a ‘New Forward Policy’: Tibet and India’s
Options’, IPCS Issue Brief, No. 64, April 2008. ‘The Future of
Kashmir: China and Kashmir’, Swords and Ploughshares, ACDIS
(University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign), Vol. XVI, No. 1,
Winter 2007-8, pp. 19-21.
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Newspaper/Magazine Op-Eds/ Blogs ‘On terrorism India is
inconsistent with China’, Moneycontrol.com, 15 March 2019. ‘What to
Make of China’s Reaction to India’s Balakot Attack’,
Moneycontrol.com, 5 March 2019. ‘Pulwama Attack: Let’s Not Give
China More Space in Pakistan’, Moneycontrol.com, 18 February 2019.
‘Domestic Political Space and Foreign Policy: What India Should Not
Learn From China’, Values & Foreign Policy, 6 February 2019.
‘India has an opportunity as China tries to boost its economy’,
Moneycontrol.com, 15 January 2019. ‘In 2019, is India prepared to
promote itself as an alternative to China?’, Moneycontrol.com, 28
December 2018. ‘中國的一帶一路及其對南亞的影響 ’ (China’s Belt and Road Initiative
and its Implications for South Asia), 南亞觀察 (South Asia Watch in
Taiwan), 21 December 2018. ‘China’s challenge to global democracy’,
Manorama Yearbook, 8 December 2018. ‘China as Sri Lanka’s ‘friendly
neighbor’ is bad news for India’, Moneycontrol.com, 14 November
2018. ‘China-Pakistan PoK bus service must remind India of the
potential of its border areas’, Moneycontrol.com, 5 November 2018.
‘Why is the challenge posed by China not yet an electoral issue in
India?’, Moneycontrol.com, 15 October 2018. ‘Do the China-Pakistan
ties offer India an opportunity?’, Moneycontrol.com, 21 September
2018. ‘Chinese defence minister’s India visit — much ado about
nothing’, Moneycontrol.com, 27 August 2018. ‘India’s neighbours
should beware of Chinese bearing gifts’, Moneycontrol.com, 16
August 2018. ‘A China-India-Pakistan trilateral: Both a red herring
and wake-up call’, Business Standard, 22 June 2018. ‘As Koreas,
China and India talk peace, is this Asia’s Moment? Not so fast’,
South China Morning Post, 29 April 2018.
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‘Like Nixon, Modi seeks a ‘reset’ with China’, The Indian
Express, 27 April 2018. ‘Modi-Xi Summit: Misplaced Hopes’, Business
Standard, 26 April 2018. ‘What an Unlimited Xi Presidency in China
Means for India’, South China Morning Post, 11 March 2018. ‘China’s
Amit Shah Wang Huning is behind the scenes as Xi Jinping becomes
president for life’, The Indian Express, 11 March 2018. ‘Xi as Prez
for life: As China gets assertive, India must focus on reforms’,
Business Standard, 6 March 2018. ‘आक्रामकता में होगा इजाफा’, Dainik
Jagran, 4 March 2018, p. 11. ‘The “Emperor” Has Feet of Clay:
Decoding the Xi Jinping Era’, News18, 27 February 2018. ‘From
iPhones to cancer, the India-China relationship is full of irony’,
South China Morning Post, 19 November 2017. ‘Red Alert’, The Week,
5 November 2017. ‘Xi Jinping is Communist Party head for second
term: Chinese president's political rise deeply impacts his country
and Asia’, Firstpost, 30 October 2017. ‘Lessons for India as China
Redefines Economic Growth at 19th CPC Congress’, News18, 27 October
2017. ‘In Offering No 2022 Successor to Xi Jinping, China Has
Broken With Tradition’, News18, 26 October 2017. ‘Beyond Doklam:
How Long Can China And India’s Kiss-And-Make Up Act Last?’, South
China Morning Post, 2 September 2017. ‘भारत-चीन संबंध नय े दौर में’
(Bharat-Cheen samabandh naye daur mein), हस्तक्षेप (Hastkshep),
Rashtriya Sahara, 29 July 2017, p. 3. ‘Doklam: India-China Cold
Front to Continue’, Gateway House, 21 July 2017. ‘Doklam Standoff:
Not Forgetting Bhutan’, News18, 8 July 2017. ‘India, China and the
'pull back your troops' fracas: Explaining action and reaction on
Doklam’, CatchNews, 6 July 2017.
‘BRI Forum: Not Really a Miss?’, Business Today, 18 June
2017.
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‘China’s influence looms strong over Sheikh Hasina’s India
visit’, Catch News, 7 April 2017. ‘When religion and politics mix:
the Dalai Lama and India–China relations’, East Asia Forum, 5 April
2017. ‘Tsai Ing-wen’s Visit to Central America’, ICS Delhi Blogs, 6
February 2017. ‘Thinking Out of the Box: Reconfiguring the
India-Pakistan-China Triangle’, India Global Business, February
2017. ‘China’s Relations with North Korea: Not an Ally but a Card’,
Science, Technology and Security forum, Manipal Advanced Research
Group, Manipal University, 20 January 2017. ‘It Is Time for India
to Stop Blaming China for Blocking Its NSG Bid’, The Wire, 8
November 2016. ‘India and OBOR: It’s Not Complicated’, The BRICS
Post, 16 October 2016. ‘Boxing It In: China’s Approach to India’,
The Quint, 13 August 2016. ‘Chinese Provinces and Nepal: The Case
of Tibet Autonomous Region’, ICS Delhi Blogs, 29 April 2016.
‘China-South Asia Relations: An Opportunity for India’, The
SARCist, March 2016. ‘North Korea’s Nuclear Test: Regional
Reactions and the Chinese Responsibility’, ICS Delhi Blogs, 29
January 2016. ‘North Korea hasn't gone rogue. Nukes are its
geo-political trump card’, Catch News, 16 January 2016. ‘China’s
aggression in South China Sea a global challenge’, Hindustan Times,
4 November 2015. ‘Brahmaputra water diversion: India must go with
the flow on this’, Hindustan Times, 16 October 2015. ‘UNGA is an
opportunity for Modi to talk Pakistan with Xi Jinping’, Hindustan
Times, 23 September 2015. ‘China’s Maldives Strategy: How Much of a
Threat to India?’, Policy Wonks, 9 September 2015. ‘China’s “moral
code”’, The Hindu (New Delhi), 1 July 2015.
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‘With China’s Growing Regional Interests, a New Strategy of
“Active Defence”’, The Wire, 28 May 2015. ‘China’s New Silk Road
Diplomacy’, Organiser, Vol. 66, No. 46, 17 May 2015. ‘Interpreting
Modispeak on China’, The Hindu, 14 May 2015. ‘Is it wise for India
to stay out of Silk Road initiative?’, South Asia Monitor, 12 May
2015. ‘Pothole potential on China's silk roads’, Asia Times Online,
13 March 2015. ‘China’s Conference Diplomacy’, Organiser, Vol. 66,
No. 26, 28 December 2014, pp. 40-41. ‘Xi Jinping visit: High on
expectations, low on delivery’, Hindustan Times (New Delhi), 22
September 2014, p. 12. ‘नाजकु !रँत% क" नई !दशा’, Dainik Jagran
(Delhi), 20 September 2014, p. 10. ‘中印面临一个历史性机遇 ’ (Zhongyin mianlin
yi ge lishixing jiyu), 环球网(Huanqiuwang), 19 September 2014.
co-author with Alka Acharya, ‘Modi, Xi and Great Expectations’,
Rediff.com, 17 September 2014. ‘नाकामी पर नई िनगाह’, Dainik Jagran,
23 March 2014, p. 10.
‘बदलाव क' राह पर चीन’, Dainik Jagran, 12 March 2014, p. 8.
‘Doing Business with the Dragon’, Hindustan Times, 4 December 2013,
p. 14. ‘सीपीसी के &वरोधाभासी संदेश0 का बंडल’, Business Bhaskar
(New Delhi), 28 November 2013, p. 4. ‘य#ुो%माद से परे देख$ भारत-चीन
!रँते को’, Business Bhaskar, 13 November 2013. p. 4. ‘ौीलंका पर सह#
फैसला’, Dainik Jagran, 12 November 2013, p. 8. ‘Needed soldier
scholars’, Sunday Indian, 29 September 2013. ‘चीनी पीएम क" याऽा पर
संतिुलत !ख’, Business Bhaskar, 22 May 2013, p. 4. ‘भरोसा बढ़ाने वाली
भ"ट’, Dainik Jagran, 22 May 2013, p. 10.
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‘चीनी घसुपठै के सबक’, Dainik Jagran, 29 April 2013, p. 6. ‘Focus
of China’s foreign policy’, New Indian Express, 25 March 2013. ‘चीन
म% प'रवत+न क- राह म% असमंजस’, Business Bhaskar, 7 March 2013, p. 4
‘संबंध% म' साहस और सतक. ता ज"र$’, Business Bhaskar, 24 January
2013, p. 4. ‘चीन से &रँत* के नए सऽू तलाशे भारत’, Business
Bhaskar, 27 November 2012, p. 4. ‘Change is in the air, will reform
follow?’, DNA (Mumbai), 23 November 2012, p. 9. ‘ചൈനീസ്
നേതൃത്വത്തിന് മുന്നില് വെല്ലുവിളികള ്’, Mathrubhumi (Kozhikode), 22
November 2012, p. 4. ‘Liang’s visit: Seeking opportunity amid
crises’, DNA, 10 September 2012, p. 8. ‘तेल कंपिनयां !दखाएंगी सहयोग
का राःता?’, Business Bhaskar, 7 August 2012, p. 4. ‘India frets as
Bhutan falls in China Teacup’, DNA, 6 July 2012, p. 14. ‘एक मंच पर
आएंगे भारत, अमे$रका और चीन?’, Business Bhaskar, 6 July 2012, p. 4.
‘India, Myanmar and China: Meeting at the Borders’, DNA, 4 June
2012, p. 11. ‘चीनी क%यिूनःट पाट$ क& नीितय, से सीख0’, Business
Bhaskar, 29 May 2012, p. 4. ‘One Blind Man in a Tale of Two
Governments’, DNA, 14 May 2012, p. 9. ‘अ"#नपथ से नह*ं गुजरेगा
चीन-भारत संबंध’, Business Bhaskar, 21 April 2012, p. 4. ‘Lessons
from the political bloodletting in China’, DNA, 9 April 2012, p.
11. ‘िसफ$ बयान) से नह,ं बढ़ेगा 0ॄ!स का वच'ःव’, Business Bhaskar, 5
April 2012, p. 4. ‘Chinese Claims on Arunachal: A Consequence of
the Sino-Tibetan Dispute’, Eastern Sentinel (Itanagar, Arunachal
Pradesh), March 2012. ‘China’s policy dilemma: To intervene or not
to intervene?’, DNA, 13 March 2012, p. 8. ‘Make sure you have the
new visa for China’s walls’, DNA, 25 January 2012, p. 12.
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‘We are not that different, you and I’, DNA, 27 December 2011,
p. 12. ‘Xi Jinping: The man with a dragon tattoo’, DNA, 27 December
2011, p. 12. ‘A tale of two coalitions’, DNA, 8 December 2011, p.
12. ‘Asian Gullivers are at the mercy of Lilliputians’, DNA, 1
November 2011, p. 12. ‘India’s Road to China must pass through
Tibet’, DNA, 9 September 2011, p. 14. ‘China looks into the mirror
to find India’s Congress’, DNA, 13 August 2011, p. 15. ‘When the US
is in the room, China is the elephant, not India’, DNA, 28 July
2011, p. 15. ‘Focusing on Arunachal’, New Indian Express, 26 July
2011. ‘Sino-Indian ties must evolve from see no Indians, hear no
Chinese’, DNA, 1 July 2011, p.16. ‘China and the end of Osama’,
Dawn (Pakistan), 14 June 2011. ‘As the US and China sit across a
table, India is left without a chair’, DNA, 27 May 2011, p. 18.
‘China’s Defense White Paper and the message for India’, DNA, 15
April 2011, p. 16. ‘When disaster strikes, politics is not far
away’, Dawn, 11 April 2011. ‘How best to take sides in somebody
else’s revolution’, DNA, 10 March 2011, p. 17. ‘The people have
spoken’, Dawn, 18 February 2011. co-author with Mirza Zulfiqur
Rahman, ‘A Parliament for the North East’, Assam Tribune
(Guwahati), 20 June 2010, p. 6. Book Reviews ‘How China Uses New
Media’, of Xinxun Wu, Han Zheng and Xiaokun Wu. 2018. New Media and
Transformation of Social Life in China in The Book Review, Vol.
XLII No. 9, September 2018, pp. 31-32. ‘Yeoman’s Oracle’ of Jayadev
Ranade. 2018. Xi Jinping’s China in The Indian Express, 6 January
2018, p. 25. ‘Insights on a Triangular Relationship’, of Amitav
Acharya Amitav Acharya. 2017. East of India, South of China: Indian
Encounters in Southeast Asia and Karen Stoll
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of Jayadev Ranade. 2018. Cadres of Tibet in The Indian Express, 9
December 2017, p. 23. of Jerusha McCormack and John G. Blair. 2016.
Thinking Through China in China Report, Vol. 53, No. 3, August
2017, 409-411. of Alok Datta. 2016. United States and Contemporary
World in Social Change, Vol 47, Issue 2, June 2017, pp. 316-317.
‘How to Train Your Dragon’ of Pravin Sawhney and Ghazala Wahab,
Dragon on our Doorstep: Managing China Through Military Power (New
Delhi: Aleph Book Company, 2017) in The Indian Express, 25 February
2017. ‘Shaped by Personalities and Events’, of Shiv Kunal Verma.
2016. 1962: The War That Wasn’t in The Book Review, Vol. XL, No.
12, December 2016, 7-8. of He Li, Political Thought and China’s
Political Transformation: Ideas Shaping Reform in Post-Mao China
(London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) in China Report, Vol. 54, No. 4,
November 2016, 330-32. of Giles Mohan, Ben Lampert, May Tan-Mullins
and Daphne Chang, Chinese Migrants and Africa’s Development: New
Imperialists or Agents of Change? (London: Zed Books 2014) in
Insights on Africa. ‘Of Perceptions and Policies’, of Shishir
Gupta, The Himalayan Face-Off: Chinese Assertion and the Indian
Riposte (Gurgaon: Hachette India, 2014), in The Book Review, Vol.
XXXVIII, No. 12, December 2014. of Li Xing and Abdulkadir Osman
Farah (eds.), China-Africa Relations in an Era of Great
Transformations (Surrey, England and Burlington VT, USA: Ashgate,
2013), in Insights on Africa, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2014, 81-84. of Carl
J. Dahlman, The World Under Pressure: How China and India are
Influencing the Global Economy and Environment (Delhi: Foundation
Books, 2013), in The Book Review, Vol. XXXVIII No. 10, October
2013, 37-38. of Rafiq Dossani, Daniel C. Sneider and Vikram Sood
(eds.), Does South Asia Exist? Prospects for Regional Integration
(Stanford, California: The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific
Research Center Books, 2010), in Journal of South Asian
Development, April 2012 Vol. 7, No. 1, 70-73. ‘Tibetan Politics in
Exile: Compulsions and Shortcomings’, of Stephanie Roemer, The
Tibetan Government-in-Exile: Politics at Large (New Delhi:
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Book Review, Vol. XXXV, No. 8-9, August-September 2011, 50-51.
‘China’s Role in Africa: ‘Seeking Truth from the Facts‘, of Deborah
Brautigam’s The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), IPCS, August 2010. of G.
Venkat Raman, State Authority and Decentralization: A Comparative
Study of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping’s Thoughts on Developmental
Strategy (Gurgaon: Hope India Publications, 2008), in China Report,
Vol. 46, No. 1, February 2010, 89-92. ‘The ‘Idea’ of Tibet:
Critiquing Western Discourses‘, of Dibyesh Anand, Geopoltical
Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination (South Asia ed. Tibet: A
Victim of Geopolitics) (New Delhi: Routledge, 2009), IPCS, November
2009. ‘Revisiting the Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute‘, of Mohan
Guruswamy and Zorawar Daulet Singh, India China Relations: The
Border Issue and Beyond (New Delhi, Viva Books, 2009), IPCS, May
2009. ‘In Search of Intellectual Roots’, of Faisal Devji, The
Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics
(New Delhi: Foundation Books, 2008), in The Book Review, Vol.
XXXIII, No. 3, March 2009, 18-19. of Jane Golley The Dynamics of
Chinese Regional Development: Market Nature, State Nurture
(Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2007), in
China Report, February 2008, Vol. 44, No. 1, 86-87.
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European Parliament and European Commission, July 2013.
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européennes, Government of France, 2009. Scholarship, Ministry of
Education, Government of the Republic of China on Taiwan, 2005.
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Republic of China on Taiwan, 2004-2005.
SELECT PRESENTATIONS
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Panelist ‘Diplomatic Logic and Future Trend of India-China
Relations’, The Future of India-China Relations: Perspectives from
Young Scholars, Intellisia Institute, Guangzhou, 26 January 2019.
‘India-China Boundary Dispute: The Larger Bilateral Context’,
Sino-Indian Border Issues in New Situation, Center for South Asian
Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, 11 December 2018. ‘Chinese
Provinces and Development Strategy: Innovation, Rebalancing and
Globalization’, 2nd India Forum on China, Goa, 8 December 2018.
‘Political Dynamics of China and Impact on India’, China Seminar
2018, Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, 12 November 2018.
‘Maritime Silk Road and Southeast Asia: Leaving India Out’, China’s
Belt and Road Initiative: Implications for India and the
Neighbourhood, UGC China Studies Programme, MMAJ Academy of
International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, 9 October 2018.
‘India-China Relations in the Age of the Strongman: Xi, Modi and
the Problem of Insincerity’, South China Sea Center, Doshisha
University, Kyoto, 3 October 2018.
‘Economic Development as Cartographic Aggression: Some Thoughts
on the Tibet-Arunachal Border’, Connectivity and ‘Cartographic
Anxieties’: Territory, Borders and Geopolitics in ‘Zomia’ Asia,
Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto
University, 1 October 2018. ‘The China Factor in Northeast India’s
Connectivity Projects’, The Connectivity Panacea: Geopolitical
Postures and Developmental Dilemmas in Northeast India, 31st Annual
Conference of the Japanese Association of South Asian Studies,
Kanazawa, Japan, 29 September 2018. ‘Yunnan’s diplomacy towards its
foreign neighbours’, international conference on Economic
Development and Social Change in Yunnan, organised by Centre for
East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, 26 September 2018. ‘The BRI in South Asia: A
Window into Chinese Thinking About the India-China Relationship’,
South Asia Conference, School of Law and Politics, Blaydes House,
University of Hull, 13 September 2018. ‘India’s Policy towards
China in the Changing Global Context’, Institute of Chinese Studies
Special Panel, Association of Asian Studes-in-Asia, India
International Centre, New Delhi, 6 July 2018.
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‘The CPC & Chinese Society: The Long Transition’, National
Defence College, 5 July 2018. ‘Economic Considerations in Chinese
Domestic Politics’, Trends & Transformations in China’s
Geo-Politics, Strategy, Society & Business, 10th Anniversary of
C3S, jointly organized by Chennai Centre for China Studies and
National Maritime Foundation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 8 June 2018.
‘Response-Options to the ‘Maritime Silk Route’ as part of China’s
Belt and Road Initiative’, 9th National Maritime Foundation-Centre
for Naval Analysis Dialogue, INS Varuna, 3 May 2018. ‘China’s
Global Ambitions: Of Term Limits and Legitimacy’, College of
Defence Management, Secunderabad, 22 March 2018.
‘Connectivity-Models in the Indo-Pacific: An Indian Perspective’,
Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue: India’s Opportunities and
Challenges in the Indo-Pacific Region, organized by the Indian Navy
in partnership with the National Maritime Foundation, Manekshaw
Centre, New Delhi, 27 February 2018. ‘China’s Belt and Road
Initiative: Ideology in the Sales Pitch’, National Conference on
India-China Relations: Exploring the Evolving Strategic Dimensions
organized by Department of Defence and Strategic Studies Savitribai
Phule Pune University in collaboration with Institute of Chinese
Studies, Delhi, Pune, 16 February 2018. ‘India’s “Act East”
Policy’, The Indo-Pacific Concept: Understanding the approaches of
regional actors - from “Belt and Road” to “Look East”, British
Embassy, Tokyo, 23 January 2018. ‘Arunachal Pradesh in Sino-Indian
Border Dispute: Contestations and Politics’, Focusing the
Frontiers: Understanding the Borderland Spaces, Identity,
Perceptions and Imaginings of Monpas in Tawang in India-China
Border, Roundtable Conference, International Strategic and Security
Studies Programme, National Institute of Advanced Studies,
Bangalore, 18 December 2017. ‘Provinces in China’s Regional Foreign
Policy: Vanguard and Cover’, 1st India Forum on China, organized by
Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi, Konrad Adenauer Foundation,
New Delhi and Goa University at International Centre Goa, 15
December 2017. ‘China's Attempts to Reorder its Economic Growth
Priorities: Lessons for India’, Special Panel - 19th Congress of
the Communist Party of China, 10th All India Conference of China
Studies, organised by the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi, UGC
Centre For Latin American Studies, Goa University and Naval War
College, at Goa University, 12 December 2017.
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‘India-China Relations in the context of the Doklam standoff’,
Panel Discussion on India-China Relations, Department of Political
Science, Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi, 12 October 2017.
‘Challenges and solutions of infrastructure building cooperation in
“Heart of Asia”’, The Conference on Infrastructure Building
Cooperation Under the Framework of Istanbul Process, China
Institute of International Studies, Beijing, China, 11 August 2017.
‘China's Challenge to ASEAN Unity’, Regional Integration in South
and Southeast Asia: Major Opportunities and Challenges, China-South
and Southeast Asia Dialogue, Institute of Chinese Studies and
Hainan Institute of World Watch, Haikou, 11 September 2017
‘Deciphering China’s Belt and Road Initiative, CPEC and India’s
Response’, China’s Strategic, Military, Economic Rise –
Reverberation in Asia, 2 Mountain Division, Indian Army, Dinjan,
Assam, 29 June 2017. ‘Pakistani Perceptions and Attitudes towards
CPEC: Suspicion and Doubt amidst the Welcome’, International
Symposium on The Belt and Road Initiative and South Asia: Building
Trust and Cooperation organized by Center of India Studies, China
West Normal University and The Charhar Institute, Nanchong,
Sichuan, China, 18 April 2017. ‘New Southbound Policy and Act East
Policy: Prospect of Strategic Cooperation between India and
Taiwan’, Vivekananda International Foundation-Prospect Foundation
Joint Seminar on India-Taiwan Strategic Dialogue, New Delhi, 8 May
2017. ‘The CPEC and its Economic Foundations’, China’s Belt and
Road Initiative: Assessment, Implications and India's Response, ICS
Wednesday Seminar, Sapru House, 7 June 2017. ‘Silk Road Spirit: A
New Kind of Multilateralism?’, Session I: India, China and Patterns
of Multilateralism in Asia, 2nd HNIWW-ICS Conference: India, China
and Multilateralism in Asia, Association of World Watch, Shanghai,
13 February 2017. ‘India-China Relations in the Coming Decade –
Cooperation or Confrontation?’, China and the World in the Coming
Decade, Forum for Strategic Initiatives and Konrad Adenauer
Stiftung, Claridges Hotel, New Delhi, 23 November 2016. ‘Analyzing
the Business Case for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor’, The
1st International Symposium on Business Corporation and Development
in South-East and South Asia under B&R Initiative,
International Business School, Yunnan University of Finance and
Economics, Kunming, China, 19 November 2016. ‘China’s Maritime Silk
Road Initiative: A “Stability Maintenance” Perspective’, Think
Tanks of Countries Along the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road and
Peaceful
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Development in the Indo-Pacific Region High-end Academic Forum,
School of International Studies a School of International Studies
and Academy of Overseas Chinese Studies, Jinan University,
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 17 November 2016. ‘The China Factor,’
Confidence Building Measures on Sub-Regional Trade &
Connectivity: The Case of Ladakh Region, organized by the
Department of National Security Studies, Central University of
Jammu, and ICS, Delhi, India International Centre, New Delhi, 7
November 2016. ‘Implications for China’s One Belt One Road in South
Asia and its influence’, Seminar on Challenges and Prospects of One
Belt One Road Initiative: South Asia Perspective, organised by
Research Institute for Indian Ocean Economies, Kunming, Yunnan, and
Chengdu Municipal Commission of Commerce, Chengdu, Sichuan, China,
2 November 2016 ‘Impact of CPEC on the Cross LoC Trade in the
Region’, Cross-LoC Trade CBMs: The Case of Ladakh Region, organised
by the Department of National Security Studies, Central University
of Jammu, Conference Hall, Tourist Facilitation Centre, Bemathang,
Kargil, Jammu and Kashmir, 25 September 2016. ‘Facilitating the
Triple Transformations in Afghanistan: How to Achieve Peace and
Stability in the “Heart of Asia”’, Regional Cooperation under the
Framework of Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process, China Institute of
International Studies, Beijing, China, 5 September 2016. ‘Impact of
CPEC on the Cross LoC Trade in the Region’, Cross-LoC Trade CBMs:
The Case of Ladakh Region, organized by the Department of National
Security Studies, Central University of Jammu, Ladakh International
Centre, Leh, Jammu and Kashmir, 20 August 2016. ‘India-China
Relations in the Context of Central Asia’, CICIR-ICS Seminar, China
Institutes for Contemporary International Relations, Beijing,
China, 5 July 2016. ‘Sub-national Exchanges as a Force for
Creativity and Change in India-China Relations’, Building of
Economic Corridors and International Cooperation in Production
Capacity, 4th China-South Asia Think-Tank Forum, Kunming, Yunnan,
China, 12 (12-13) June 2016. ‘China-Southeast Asia Political and
Security Relations: A View from New Delhi’, India, China and ASEAN
Academic Seminar, Hainan Institute for World Watch, Haikou, Hainan,
China, 6 April 2016. ‘Chinese State Behaviour – How Does China
Leverage Its CNP?’, Demystifying the Dragon, Defence Services Staff
College, Wellington, Tamil Nadu, 29 March 2016. ‘China’s Foreign
Policy and India’s Place in It’, Symposium on India-China
Relations, Maharaj Agrasen College, University of Delhi, 14 March
2016.
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‘The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and the
China-India-Pakistan Triangle’, The Political Economy of China’s
Maritime Silk Road Initiative and South Asia (中国“海上丝绸之路”与南亚的政治经济学),
Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational
Corporations, USA, at School of Advanced International and Area
Studies, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 21 November 2015.
‘India-China Relations: A New Type of Great Power Relations?’,
Changu Kana Thakur Arts, Commerce & Science College, New
Panvel, Raigarh, Maharashtra, 28 October 2015. ‘Politics in China:
Party-State with Confucian Characteristics’, Department of Civics
and Politics, Mumbai University, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 27 October
2015. ‘The China-Pakistan Alliance in South Asia’, Chaophraya
Dialogue on China-Pakistan-Afghanistan, Australia India Institute @
Delhi, New Delhi, 16 July 2015. ‘China’s Foreign Policy towards
India: Significant Views and Approaches’, China’s Relations with
its Neighboring Countries in the New Context, Vietnam Academy of
Social Sciences, Hanoi, Vietnam, 9 July 2015. ‘China’s Defence
White Paper 2015’, Roundtable, Observer Research Foundation, New
Delhi, 2 July 2015. ‘Challenges posed to GIBSA by Recent Chinese
Diplomatic and Multilateral Activity’, GIBSA Quadrilogue 2015,
organized by the Hans Siedel Stiftung and Stiftung Wissenschaft und
Politik (SWP), Berlin, Germany, 28 June 2015. ‘The SCS Disputes and
China’s New Maritime Silk Road Initiative’, International Security
Environment: Managing Challenges in South China Sea, National
Defence College, New Delhi, 24 April 2015. ‘China’s New Silk Roads:
Economics vis-à-vis Diplomacy’, China’s Asian Challenges and
Opportunities, Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, 26 March
2015. ‘China’s ‘New Tianxia’ Strategy and the Indian Response’,
India’s Foreign Policy Strategies through the 21st Century,
University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, 28 (26-28)
February 2015. ‘China and Myanmar’s 2015 Elections: plus ça change,
plus c'est la même chose?’, Myanmar: Moving Towards Elections 2015,
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, 19
February 2015. ‘China’s 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative:
An Indian Interpretation’, Collectively Building the 21st-Century
Maritime Silk Road and Creating a Community of Common Destiny,
organized by The State Council Information Office,
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Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
International Publishing Group, and Fujian Academy of Social
Sciences, Quanzhou, Fujian, China, 12 February 2015. ‘China’s
Outreach in South Asia: Key Features and Implications for India’,
Adjustment of India’s Look East Policy in the New Context,
Institute for Indian and Southwest Asian Studies, Vietnam Academy
of Social Sciences, Hanoi, Vietnam, 19 January 2015. ‘India’s China
Puzzle: Incursions, Gods and Roman Numerals’, China, India and
Beyond: Understanding Cooperation, Competition and Development,
International Management Institute (IMI) and Sichuan Academy of
Social Sciences, IMI, New Delhi, 15 October 2014. ‘Visit of
President Xi Jinping to India’, ICS Wednesday Seminar, 24 September
2014. ‘China’s New Silk Roads Policy: Towards a New Tianxia?’,
China, India and the Subcontinent: At the Crossroads of the
‘Geo-civilizational’ and the ‘Geo-political’, organized by Cheena
Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, in collaboration with Institute of Chinese
Studies, Delhi and Association of Asian Scholars, India, 21
September 2014. ‘Locating Tripura in Asia: Learning and Un-Learning
From China’, BCIM, BIMSTEC, K2K: The New Geopolitics of Asia and
Opportunities for India's Northeast, Tripura Conclave, 9 July 2014,
Agartala, Tripura. ‘India and the Silk Routes’, The Silk Road
Economic Belt: A New Opportunity to Build, Prosper, Succeed and
Share Together, organized by The State Council Information Office,
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China International Publishing
Group, Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences, Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region, 26 June 2014. ‘People-to-People Connectivity’,
Stakeholders’ Consultative Workshop on the BCIM Economic Corridor,
organized by the Institute of Chinese Studies with the Maulana Abul
Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies and the Confederation of
Indian Industry, Kolkata, 2 May 2014. ‘Leadership Transition in
China and Implications for South Asia’, Resurgent China and
Emerging Strategic Trends in Asia, Defence Services Staff College,
Wellington, 27 March 2014. ‘Evaluating Chinese Foreign Policy in Xi
Jinping’s First Year’, Session I: State of the Field/China Today,
6th All India Conference of China Studies, Indian Institute of
Management, Kozhikode, Kerala, 12 December 2013. ‘Sino-Indian
Cooperation in their Border Areas: Rationale, Challenges and
Opportunities’, 中国沿边开发开放与周边区域合作国际论坛 (The International Forum on the
Development and Opening-up in the China Border Area and the
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National and Regional Cooperation with the Neighboring
Countries), organized by the Center of Chinese Borderland History
and Geography, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Heilongjiang
University, Harbin, 28 November 2013. ‘Sino-Pak Partnership:
Changing Strategically’, International Workshop on Recent Security
Challenges in the Asia Pacific and India-China Relations, Institute
of Chinese Communist Studies, Taipei, Taiwan, 31 July 2013. ‘India
and China: Competition or Cooperation?’, International Workshop on
Recent Security Challenges in the Asia Pacific and India-China
Relations, Institute of Chinese Communist Studies, Taipei, Taiwan,
30 July 2013. ‘Regional Challenges as Opportunities: Cooperation
and the Sino-Indian Relationship’, CASS-ICSSR Joint Seminar on
Sino-Indian Cooperation: New Opportunities and New Ideas, Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 17 April 2013. ‘Perspective on
China’s Rise’, Security Challenges for India in View of China’s
Rise, Reshaping Strategy to Meet Future Challenges to India’s
National Security with Special Emphasis on China, Defence Services
Staff College, Wellington, 5 April 2013. ‘Issues and Considerations
in Connectivity Projects in the BCIM Region’, Strengthening
Multi-modal Connectivity, 11th BCIM (Bangladesh, China, India and
Myanmar) Regional Cooperation Forum, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 24 February
2013. ‘China’s Economic Performance in the Hu-Wen Decade: Social
Impact and Consequences’, ICS Wednesday Seminar, Institute of
Chinese Studies, Delhi, 12 September 2012 ‘Determinants of China’s
National Security and Foreign Policies’, 23 Infantry Division, 1
Corps, Indian Army, Ranchi, Jharkhand, 30 August 2012. ‘Burma and
International Stakeholders: The Case of China’, Democratization in
Burma: Challenges and Prospects, Institute of Social Sciences, New
Delhi 18 May 2012. ‘India in China’s Foreign Policy Calculus:
Moving on from Reluctant Acknowledgment’, China’s 21st Century
International Relations: Stability or Turbulence?, University of
Delhi, 21 April 2012. ‘Institutionalizing the BCIM: The Next
Steps‘, Session 5: Institutional Arrangements, 10th BCIM
(Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar) Regional Cooperation Forum,
Kolkata, 19 February 2012. ‘Regional Connectivity: The Gaps ‘on the
Ground’‘, Session 3: Regional Connectivity: Tourism, Transport
& Infrastructure, 10th BCIM (Bangladesh, China, India and
Myanmar) Cooperation Forum, Kolkata, 18 February 2012.
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‘Shifting Equilibrium: Explaining Sino-Indian Relations since
2005’, 60 Years of Sino-Indian Interactions: Comprehending the
Multifarious Dimensions of Inter-relationship, Sree Kerala Varma
College, Thrissur, Kerala, 12 December 2011. ‘Emerging Regional
Architectures in Asia-Pacific and Greater South Asia’, 11th
Trilateral Conference of China Russia and India, China Institute of
International Studies, Beijing, China, 15 November 2011.
‘Integrating the Outlier: Arunachal Pradesh as Development Project
and Dilemma’, 4th All India Conference of China Studies, University
of Hyderabad, 8 November 2011. ‘Indian Public Opinion and
Sino-Indian Relations: Causes and Consequences’, India-China
Interface, Department of Foreign Languages – Chinese, Banaras Hindu
University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 10 January 2011. ‘China’s
Cities: New Centres of Political Power and Economic Growth’,
Session on ‘Emerging Trends in China Studies: Politics &
International Relations’, 3rd All India Conference of China
Studies, organized by the Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi
and Hariprasanna Biswas Centre for India-China Cultural Studies,
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 20 December 2010. ‘Sino-US Relations
in the 21st Century’, The Contours of Sino-US Competition in the
21st Century and Implications for India, organized by the IPCS and
HQ Integrated Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence, Government of
India, IDSA, 24 November 2010. ‘China-India Relations: Strategic
Engagement and Challenges’, Centre Asie, Institut Francais des
Relations Internationales (IFRI) Paris, 12 May 2010. ‘The
Afghanistan/Pakistan crisis and the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization’, A Rising Asia and the International System, Stiftung
Wissenschaft und Politik, Planning Division, German Foreign
Ministry and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Berlin, 28
May 2009. ‘Sub-national Units and their Transnational Linkages:
Some Issues and Implications’, GARNET conference on Mapping
Integration and Regionalism in a Global World: The EU and Regional
Governance outside the EU, Sciences Po, Bordeaux, France, 18
September 2008. Lectures ‘Chinese Foreign Policy towards South
Asia: Role of the Provinces’, China Study Forum, College of Defence
Management, Secunderabad, 19 November 2018. ‘The BRI Problem:
Challenges and Opportunities for India’, 22 Inf Div, 15 September
2018.
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‘China’s Strategic Behaviour: How Important is Xi Jinping to the
Equation?’, China Study Forum, College of Defence Management,
Secunderabad, 14 August 2018. ‘BRI with South Asian
Characteristics: Chinese Foreign Policy in India’s Near
Neighbourhood’, College of Defence Management, Secunderabad, 14
August 2018. ‘China’s Belt & Road Initiative and India-China
Relations’, Contemporary China Research Base Seminar Series
(No.40), Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, 26
January 2018. ‘China's Quest for Global Leadership’, College of
Defence Management, Secunderabad, 14 October 2017. ‘Explaining
India’s China Policy’, Center for Studies on South Asia and the
Middle East, National Chung-hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, 2
October 2017. ‘China’s South Asia Policy’, 30th Naval Higher
Command Course and Regional Maritime Security Course, Naval War
College, Goa, 16 September 2017. ‘Chinese Foreign Policy in the
Maritime Domain’, INS Hansa, Indian Navy, Goa, 25 July 2017.
‘Perspective and Future Engagements with China’, 7th Senior Command
Management Course, Indo-Tibetan Border Police Academy, Mussoorie,
Dehradun, Uttarakhand, 15 October 2016. ‘Not Just India’s
Neighbours: China’s South Asia Policy’, Department of International
Relations, South Asian University, New Delhi, 13 October 2016.
‘India-China and India-Taiwan Relations’, Prospect Foundation,
Taipei, Taiwan, 3 October 2016. ‘Why Should India Study China? Why
Should Maharashtra Study China?’, Keynote Address, National
Workshop on India-China Relations, organised by Shivaji University,
Kolhapur, Department of Civics and Politics, University of Mumbai
and Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi, Kolhapur, 21 July 2016.
‘现代印-中关系:挑战与机遇’, (Contemporary India-China Relations: Challenges
and Opportunities) Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang, 22
November 2015. ‘Contemporary Chinese Society: Between Anomie and
Exceptionalism’, Department of Sociology, SNDT Women’s University,
Mumbai, Maharashtra, 27 October 2015.
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‘China’s One Belt, One Road: Economics at the Service of
Ideology’, Monday Seminar, Department of East Asian Studies,
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi, 12 October 2015.
‘China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ Policy: Indian Reactions’, Institute
of World Watch, Haikou, Hainan, China, 8 February 2015. ‘The Indian
Citizen and Foreign Policy: Overcoming Elitism, Strengthening the
States and Reclaiming Realism’, valedictory address, Citizen’s
Foreign Policy, Department of Political Science, Rashtrasant
Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, 11 November 2014. ‘China’s New
Tianxia and India’s (Deficient) Response’, ICS Wednesday Seminar,
Delhi, 13 August 2014. ‘Understanding India and China in Tripura’,
Holy Cross College, Agartala, Tripura, 10 July 2014. ‘India and
China’s Ethnic Minorities’, Guangxi University for Nationalities
(广西民族大学), Nanning, Guangxi, China, 18 December 2013. ‘Sino-Indian
Relations: Towards A New Type of Great Power Relations?’, Guangxi
Academy of Social Sciences, Nanning, Guangxi, China, 18 December
2013. ‘西南部丝绸之路经济带及区域经济合作’ (The Silk Route Economic Corridor and
Regional Economic Cooperation in China’s Southwest),
中国沿边开发开放与周边区域合作国际论坛北京座谈会, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,
Beijing, 2 December 2013. ‘Role of China in the South Asia Region’,
British High Commission, New Delhi, 22 August 2013. ‘China and
India: Rising Powers, Struggling Nations’, Chaire sur les pays
émergents, Centre Montesquieu de recherches politiques
(GRECCAP-CMRP), Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV, Bordeaux, 17
October 2012. ‘Interpreting China in India’, Army Education Corps
Training College and Centre, Pachmarhi, 9 July 2011. ‘Studying
Chinese, Understanding China’, Department of Chinese Language,
Foreign Languages Wing, Army Education Corps Training College and
Centre, Pachmarhi, 8 July 2011. ‘Political Economy of Arunachal
Pradesh in a Rising India’, Center for China’s Borderland History
and Geography Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing,
14 December 2010.
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‘Sino-Indian Relations at 60: Looking Ahead to the Next Decade’,
Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, Beijing, 13 December
2010. ‘Thinking about China: The View from Delhi’, Jaipuria
Institute of Management, NOIDA, 26 August 2010. ‘The States in
India and Foreign Policy: Interests, Influence and Implications’,
L’équipe Politiques comparées et études européennes, SPIRIT,
Sciences Po, Bordeaux, 9 April 2010. ‘Regional Bloc Formation in
China: Provinces in Concert and in Competition’, Institute of
Chinese Studies (ICS), New Delhi, 18 March 2009. Discussant of
‘Locating China in International Conflict and Cooperation’, CIPOD
Young Scholars’ Conference, School of International Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 20 November 2018. of Hideya
Kurata, ‘North Korea and Strategic Issues in the Asia Pacific’,
India-Japan Indo-Pacific Dialogue Series Roundtable, Delhi Policy
Group, India International Centre, 12 February 2018. ‘Bilateral
Relations & The Maritime Domain’, Session 9, 10th All India
Conference of China Studies, organised by the Institute of Chinese
Studies, Delhi, UGC Centre For Latin American Studies, Goa
University and Naval War College, at Goa University, 14 December
2017. ‘China’s Expanding Maritime Footprint’, Session 5, 10th All
India Conference of China Studies, organised by the Institute of
Chinese Studies, Delhi, UGC Centre For Latin American Studies, Goa
University and Naval War College, at Goa University, 13 December
2017. ‘India and China’s OBOR: Scope for Cooperation or Heading
towards Conflict?’, India’s ‘One Belt One Road’ Challenge: Views
From Northeast India, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies,
Department of Political Science, Gauhati University, 3 June 2017.
of ‘China’s Strategy-Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative’,
by Cdr M. H. Rajesh, United Services Institution of India, New
Delhi, 12 August 2015. of ‘Australia-China Strategic Cooperation:
Whither Bound?’ by Omprakash Dahiya, National Maritime Foundation,
New Delhi, 8 January 2014. of ‘Political Membership: Reframing
‘ethnicity and politics of marginality’,’ Continuities and
Discontinuities of Asian Engagement: Borders, Mobility and Identity
in Northeast India and Asia, IIT Guwahati, 18 October 2013.
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of ‘Staging Cultural Heritage in West Bengal and Yunnan’, India
China: Thinking, Doing, Relating, India China Knowledge and
Capacity Building Initiative (ICKCBI) Summer Fellowship 2013,
co-hosted by India-China Institute (ICI), The New School, Yunnan
University, University of Calcutta, University of Delhi, Centre for
Policy Research, New Delhi, 12 August 2013. ‘China Studies in
India: Of Caste, Class and Capital‘, Session 1: China Studies in
India: Priorities and Challenges, All India China Scholars
Colloquium, Institute of Chinese Studies, India International
Centre, New Delhi, 11 August 2012. of ‘Can China and India Rise
Peacefully’, by Sumit Ganguly, India International Centre, New
Delhi, 2 August 2012.
PREVIOUS TEACHING ICS Scholar-in-Residence, Department of
Political Science, University of Kerala, March 2017. ICS
Scholar-in-Residence, Department of Civics and Politics, University
of Mumbai, January 2016. ‘Indian Political System’, Chaire sur les
pays émergents, Centre Montesquieu de recherches politiques
(GRECCAP-CMRP), Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV, Bordeaux,
France, October 2012. ‘Chinese Politics, Government and Foreign
Policy’, ICS Scholar-in-Residence at the Post-Graduate Department
of Political Science, St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Bangalore,
Karnataka, September 2012. ‘Emerging Powers in the International
System’, (with Prof. Daniel Bach), 5th Year MA International
Relations, Sciences Po, Bordeaux, France, January-April 2010.
PHD SUPERVISION Naval War College, Goa (expected dates of
completion – 2021 (one) and 2022 (two).
PHD COMMITTEES Department of Civics and Politics, University of
Mumbai (expected date of completion - 2019). Department of
Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-G (completed 2018 and
2019).
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Associate Editor, China Report (since April
2016), Assistant Editor, China Report (September 2010-March 2016).
Member, Editorial Boards: FORUM-South Asian Perspectives on
Management and Social Sciences, FISAT Business School, Kochi,
Kerala (since 2015); Review for Indian and Asian Studies, Institute
for Indian and Southwest Asian Studies, Vietnam Academy of Social
Sciences (since July 2016); Maritime Affairs: Journal of the
National Maritime Foundation of India (since December 2018).
Special Invitee: Board of Studies, Department of National Security
Studies, Central University of Jammu, Jammu, August 2016.
Manuscript review: South Asian Survey, India Quarterly, Institute
of Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, India Review,
Global Policy, SAGE Open, Eurasia Border Review, International
Studies Review, China: An International Journal, Journal of Asian
Politics and History Dissertation Examiner: Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi; University of Delhi
FIELDWORK China: April 2016, May 2015, December 2010, November
2006 Taiwan: October 2015, August 2013 Meghalaya-Bangladesh border:
July 2014 Tripura-Bangladesh border: July 2014 West
Bengal-Bangladesh border: May 2014 Arunachal Pradesh: October 2013,
March 2011, December 2008 Mizoram: January 2013, December 2012
Thailand-Myanmar borders: July-August 2011 India-Myanmar borders:
December 2008 Ladakh: August 2007 Jammu, Kashmir: February 2007
SELECT MEDIA APPEARANCES Commentary: Moneycontrol, Business
Standard, South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), The Indian Express,
The Quint, The SARCist, The Wire, Asia Times Online, 环
球网/Huanqiu Shibao (in Chinese, Beijing), Hindustan Times (New
Delhi), दैिनक जागरण/Dainik Jagran (in Hindi, New Delhi), Catch
News, The New Indian Express (Chennai), !बज़नेस भाःकर/Business
Bhaskar (in Hindi, Delhi), DNA (Mumbai), മതൃഭൂമി/Mathrubhumi (in
Malayalam, Kozhikode), Dawn (Lahore), Assam Tribune (Guwahati), The
Indian Express (New Delhi)
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Print: South China Morning Post, Sankei Shimbun, 文匯報 (Wenhui
Bao), 人民日报 (Renmin Ribao), People’s Daily, Xinhua, Central News
Agency (Taiwan), Le Monde, World Politics Review, Global Post,
Times of India, Sydney Morning Herald, La Stampa, Christian Science
Monitor, Vietnam News Agency Radio: National Public Radio (US),
German Radio Network, Radio Netherlands, China Radio International
(English, Hindi), Voice of America TV: Zee News (Hindi), Asianet
News (Malayalam), Rajya Sabha TV (English, Hindi), Doordarshan News
(English), Phoenix TV (Hong Kong), CCTV-English (Beijing),
Headlines Today, CCTV-News (Beijing) Online: El Confidencial,
Sputnik News, The Wire, Catch News