Covid – 19 and Geopolitics

Panelists: Dr. T.C.A. Raghavan, Director-General, Indian Council of World Affairs, former High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore and author of Abdur Rahim – Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India; The People Next Door – The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan; and History Men – Jadunath Sarkar, G.S. Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past (2020); and Shri Shrenik Rao, Editor-in-Chief, Madras Courier and Fellow, Oxford University’s Reuters Institute of Journalism

 

Moderator: Ambassador K.P. Fabian

 

The world that emerges free from Covid-19 will be different from what it was before the contagion appeared, What will be the modified geopolitical equations? Will China’s rise be accelerated, decelerated, or even reversed? What might be the change in the worldview of United States after the November 2020 elections? Will the South get appropriate assistance from the North to address the crisis and later to restore its economy? What are the lessons to be learnt? What are the challenges and opportunities facing India now as the contagion is still raging, and what might be the challenges and opportunities after it has been contained and, hopefully, eliminated in the whole world?