China and the World: India's Perspective, with Tanvi Madan, Samir Saran and Shashi Tharoor

04/27/21 • 30 min

While China’s largest neighbor India is expected to overtake China by population within only a few years, it is struggling in most other areas to compete with the other giant emerging country. The recent border clashes only led the already complicated relations to deteriorate. As for most countries, India will have to balance furthering its economic potential – that it will not achieve without China – and opposing a China led region by offering other countries opportunities to collaborate.
Your host: Nico Luchsinger, Executive Director, Asia Society Switzerland
Moderator: Nico Luchsinger
Speakers:
Tanvi Madan, Director and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Samir Saran, President, Observer Research Foundation (ORF)
Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram and author
Production: Serena Jung, Program and Communications Director, Asia Society Switzerland
Editing: Denise Staubli, Program Manager, Asia Society Switzerland
Sources:

Asia Society Switzerland State of Asia 2020: The Indian Imperative, November 27, 2020
Asia Society Switzerland Webcast 'The Relations Between China and India Have Seen a Stabilization, but No Resolution' , April 16, 2020
Book Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped US-India Relations during the Cold War by Tanvi Madan, Brookings Institution Press, 2020
Book Pax Sinica: Implications for the Indian Dawn by Samir Saran and Akhil Deo, Rupa Publications 2019
Book The Battle Of Belonging: On Nationalism, Patriotism, And What It Means To Be Indian by Shashi Tharoor, 2020

Asia Society Switzerland State of Asia 2020: The Indian Imperative, November 27, 2020
Asia Society Switzerland Webcast 'The Relations Between China and India Have Seen a Stabilization, but No Resolution' , April 16, 2020
Book Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped US-India Relations during the Cold War by Tanvi Madan, Brookings Institution Press, 2020
Book Pax Sinica: Implications for the Indian Dawn by Samir Saran and Akhil Deo, Rupa Publications 2019
Book The Battle Of Belonging: On Nationalism, Patriotism, And What It Means To Be Indian by Shashi Tharoor, 2020

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China and the World: Africa as China’s Policy Test Bed, with Eric Olander and Aleksandra Gadzala

China has responded to the call for investments in Africa like no other country. Since the end of the 1990s, China’s increasing financial and economic engagement in Africa has led to critical debates whether China can offer a good alternative to Western aid and charity. Its relationships with African countries has also become ever more political.
Your host: Nico Luchsinger, Co-Executive Director, Asia Society Switzerland
Moderator: Aleksandra Gadzala, Head of Research at The Singularity Group
Speaker: Eric Olander, Co-founder of the China Africa Project (CAP)
Production: Denise Staubli, Program Officer, Asia Society Switzerland
Sources:

Asia Society Switzerland webcast What is China Doing in Africa? with Eric Olander and Aleksandra Gadzala, May 7, 2020
Asia Society Switzerland Gen A essay African problems can only be solved by Africans...and Chinese? by Michael Rychener-Schreiner, November 22, 2020
Book Africa and China: How Africans and Their Governments are Shaping Relations with China, edited by Aleksandra Gadzala
The China in Africa Podcast, the China Africa Project (CAP)

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Your host: Nico Luchsinger, Co-Executive Director, Asia Society Switzerland
Speaker: Alexander Gabuev, Senior Fellow and Chair of the Russia in the Asia-Pacific Program, the Carnegie Moscow Center
Production: Denise Staubli, Program Manager, Asia Society Switzerland
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