China and India: Seeking a New Balance

Tuesday, March 10, 2015
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
(Pacific)
Philippines Conference Room
Encina Hall, Third Floor, Central, C330
616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Speaker: 
  • Nayan Chanda

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The dramatic victory of the Narendra Modi-led BharatiJanata Party – the biggest single-party majority in thirty years in the national election – has shaken up South Asia’s diplomatic scene. Inviting leaders from neighboring South Asia to his inauguration, visiting Brasilia, Tokyo, and Washington, before welcoming Chinese president Xi Jinping – all within four months of taking power  - Modi has imparted a new dynamism in Indian foreign policy.  His second summit with President Obama within four months when Obama was invited as chief guest at India’s Republic Day parade and their joint statement implicitly critical of China has stirred concern and enthusiasm about an Indo-US alliance. In this presentation, Dr. Chanda will examine the direction of India’s relations with China in the new global context.

 

For nearly thirty years before he joined Yale University, Mr. Chanda was with the Hong Kong-based magazine the Far Eastern Economic Review as its editor, editor-at-large and correspondent. In 1989-90 Chanda was a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. From 1990-1992 Chanda was editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, published from New York. He is the author of Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization. He is also the author of Brother Enemy: The War After the War and co-author of over a dozen books on Asian politics, security and foreign policy including Soldiers and Stability in Southeast Asia and The Political Economy of Foreign Policy In Southeast Asia and The International Relations of Asia. He co-edited with Strobe Talbott The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11.

Chanda writes a fortnightly column 'Bound Together' in India's BusinessWorld magazine and Singapore Straits Times. He is an occasional contributor to the opinion page of the International Herald Tribune and is a member of the editorial board of GlobalAsia , New Global Studies journal. He is a member of the Advisory Council for the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the recipient of the Shorenstein Journalism Award for 2005.