China Studies Centre, the University of Sydney
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm (AEST), Monday 16 September 2019
ABS Case Study Lecture Theatre 2080, Level 2, Abercrombie Building (H70) The University of Sydney
India-China relations have elements of cooperation and competition. On the heels of China, India has emerged as the world’s fastest-growing economy, albeit with completely different political and social systems. India is set to overtake China’s population and become one of the top three economies by 2040. China’s dramatic rise has altered the geo-economic and geo-political equilibrium in the Indo-Pacific. The ongoing US-China trade war, the Belt and Road Initiative, the jostling in the South China Sea and China’s forays in the Indian Ocean add to the complex challenge of shaping the regional security architecture. India and China have succeeded in maintaining peace and tranquillity on the long border. Prime Minister Modi and President Xi have agreed to provide strategic guidance to enhance trust and cooperation. The key to better ties lies in a ‘closer development partnership’, being mutually sensitive to each other’s core concerns, and fire-walling the bilateral track from third-country considerations.
About the speaker
Amb. Sujan R. Chinoy is the Director-General of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, since 3 January 2019. A career diplomat of the Indian Foreign Service from 1981-2018, he was India’s Ambassador to Japan and the Republic of the Marshall Islands from 2015-2018, and earlier, the Ambassador to Mexico and High Commissioner to Belize.
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