The current India-China rivalry has revealed the fault lines in South Asia. The increasing Chinese interests in the region, be it elections in Sri Lanka or involvement with Nepalese communist parties, has resulted in a complex dynamics between New Delhi and Beijing. How do South Asian countries navigate between China, which has risen to be a great power and India, that is at the heart of the subcontinent? In this backdrop, Professor C Raja Mohan spoke to Ambassador Shivshankar Menon about the geopolitics of South Asia. Ambassador Menon is currently a Professor at the Ashoka University in India, the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Chinese Studies in New Delhi, and a Distinguished Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington. He served as national security advisor to the Prime Minister of India from January 2010 to May 2014 and as Foreign Secretary of India from October 2006 to August 2009. A career diplomat, he was Ambassador or High Commissioner of India to Israel, Sri Lanka, China, and Pakistan.
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Episode 203: Feminist and Colonial Discourses in India
Episode 202: Modi’s Visit to France - 25 Years of Strategic Partnership
Episode 201: SCO Summit 2023
Episode 200: Modi’s Visit to the US
Episode 199: IPEF: Turning a New Corner - Thai and Regional Perspective
Episode 198: IPEF: Turning a New Corner - an Indian Perspective
Episode 197: IPEF: Turning a New Corner - an Australian Perspective
Episode 196: India-Nepal Bilateral Relationship
Episode 195: ASEAN-India Maritime Exercise
Episode 194: India-EU FTA - Issues and Implications
Episode 193: Decoding the Karnataka Verdict
Episode 192: India’s SCO Presidency
Episode 191: Indian Foreign Policy amidst India’s G20 and SCO Presidency
Episode 190: South Asia Geoeconomics
Episode 189: Indian Foreign Trade Policy 2023
Episode 188: Examining a Decade of the BRI and CPEC
Episode 187: Political and Economic Crisis in Pakistan
Episode 186: The IPEF Negotiations
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