Seeing China and the Asia-Pacific from India

With their shared and yet diverged colonial and postcolonial experiences, both China and India have embarked on their own modernizing and state-building projects after World War II. From a brief hope of solidarity in the 1955 Bandung Conference to repeated border conflicts, and from postwar developmentalism to neoliberal market reforms, the two self-assured Asian giants have entangled with one another in numerous ways. Today, as China and India seem to drift further apart from each other under the rhetoric of the “New Cold War,” what does it mean to talk about South-South relations in research, activism, and policy-making in the context of China and India? How do scholars and intellectuals from or working on India view China and the changing Asia-Pacific order? This panel brought together scholars and intellectuals from a variety of backgrounds to engage these urgent questions.

Sponsored by Asian Institute, Sr. David, Chu Program in Asia Pacific Studies. Co-sponsored by east Asian Seminar Series and the Centre for South Asian Studies.