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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 jabinjacob@gmail.com | http://indiandchina.com/ | @jabinjacobt ________________________________________________________________________

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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Farrell and Sumit Ganguly (eds). 2016. Heading East: Security, Trade, and Environment between India and Southeast Asia in The Book Review, Vol. XLI, No. 12, December 2017, 12-13. ‘In High Places’, 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: Routledge, 2008), in The Book Review, Vol. XXXVI No. 3, March 2012, 19-20.

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‘Pakistan’s Quagmire: The Whys and Wherefore’, of Ravi Kalia (ed.), Pakistan: From the Rhetoric of Democracy to the Rise of Militancy (London, New York and Delhi: Routledge, 2011), in The 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.

AWARDS/HONOURS European Union Visitors Programme (EUVP), European Parliament and European Commission, July 2013. Personnalité d’avenir, Ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes, Government of France, 2009. Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Government of the Republic of China on Taiwan, 2005. Scholarship, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of the Republic of China on Taiwan, 2004-2005.

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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