India-China Relations in Indo-Pacific

CLAWS is organising a Round-Table Discussion on the topic “India-China relations in the Indo-Pacific”

Speaker Prof. Shen Dingli, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Discussant Prof. J. Mohan Malik, Asia Pacific Centre for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii

Chairperson: Maj Gen Dipankar Banerjee

This promises to be an interesting programme as the speakers are highly qualified and the topic is very interesting.

Att is the programme schedule and short bio of the speaker and discussant.

PROF. SHEN DINGLI, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Prof. Shen Dingli is a professor of institute of international studies at Fudan University. He is also an honorary visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis. He has taught international security, China-US relations, China’s foreign policy and defence policy in China and abroad. His research and publication covers China-US security relations, regional security and international strategy, arms control and non- proliferation, foreign/defence policy of China and the US etc. he is vice president of Chinese association of south Asian studies, and shanghai association of international strategic studies. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Fudan in 1989 and did post-doc in arms control at Princeton university from 1989 – 1991. He was an Eisenhower fellow in 1996, and advised in 2002 the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan for his strategic planning of second term. He is on the Global Council of the Asia Society. He has co-edited 17 books and published over 2,500 papers and articles worldwide.

PROF. J. MOHAN MALIK, Asia-Pacific Centre for Security Studies, Honolulu, USA

Prof. J. Mohan Malik is professor of Asian university at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Centre for Security Studies in Honolulu. His areas of expertise are Asian geopolitics, China and great power competition, nuclear and maritime security. He is the author and/or editor of several books, most recently Maritime Security in the Indo-Pacific (2014) and China and India: Great Power Rivals (2011). Dr Malik has contributed numerous book chapters and published nearly 200 articles in journals such as Asian Affairs, Asian Survey, Arms Control, China Quarterly, China brief, Jane’s Intelligence Review, Journal of Contemporary China, Orbis, Pacific Affairs, The American Interest, and World Policy Journal. His op-eds have appeared in Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, and The Diplomat. Dr Malik has testified before the US-china Economic and Security Review Commission, and done consultancy work for the Australian Department of Defence and Booze Allen Hamilton.