Webinar

Panelists: Dr. Jabin T. Jacob, Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University; Dr. Sriparna Pathak, Assistant Professor and Assistant Academic Dean, Jindal School of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat; and Shri Keshav Kelkar, Independent Analyst

Chair and Moderator: Prof. C. Raja Mohan, Senior Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute, Delhi

October 2023 marked a decade of China’s foreign policy conference on peripheral diplomacy. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) convened a strategic affairs conference focusing on China’s peripheral diplomacy in October 2013. It was an often-overlooked yet significant event attended by high-ranking CCP members, central committee organs, and senior diplomats, underscoring cardinal features and factors of China’s relations with its neighbouring countries. A newly appointed President Xi Jinping emphasised the importance of a stable periphery to ensure China’s broader development goals, including the “Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.” In the last ten years, China has become assertive and expansionist, and its ongoing conflict with neighbours on land and maritime speaks volumes about it. Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) stands at the heart of what was propounded at the conference in Beijing. In this webinar, the panellists will assess the trajectory of China’s peripheral diplomacy in the last decade.  

(Collaboration: Asia Society Policy Institute, Delhi)

Registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_saHOPAJuTwOwizN2Qi_xqA