The Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) is delighted to invite you to a seminar titled “The World According to Xi Jinping” on Tuesday, December 17, 2024 from 3:30-5:00 PM (IST). The seminar will feature a talk by Richard McGregor, Senior Fellow, East Asia, Lowy Institute, Australia, followed by a discussion with Shivshankar Menon, Distinguished Fellow, CSEP and Former National Security Adviser, India. The event will be moderated by Shruti Jargad, Research Analyst, CSEP.

The seminar will be held at the CSEP Auditorium, 6, Dr Jose P Rizal Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi – 110021. Please note that this is an in-person event only. If you are in Delhi on the day, please join us for the seminar. The event will be available on the CSEP website and YouTube channel upon completion.

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About the Event

The Chinese leader has reshaped his country’s foreign policy, just as he has reshaped its political system since coming to power in 2012. Deng Xiaoping’s “hide and bide” diplomatic policy has been replaced with one that puts China as the heart of an emerging new world order. Beijing is now willing to challenge the US and its allies in a way that it would not have done a decade or more ago. Beijing is also asserting its interests more forcefully in the region. This lecture will attempt to explain how this has happened, and the instruments of policy statecraft and personalities that are driving changes that have profound implications both for Asia and the world.

Speaker

Richard McGregor 

Richard McGregor is a Senior Fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute, Sydney, Australia. He is a former Beijing and Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times and the author of numerous books on East Asia. His most recent book, Xi Jinping: The Backlash, was published by Penguin Australia as a Lowy Institute Paper in August 2019. His book on Sino-Japanese relations, Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century (Penguin Books, 2017), was called “shrewd and knowing” by the Wall Street Journal and the “best book of the year” by the Literary Review in the United Kingdom. In late 2018, it won the Prime Minister of Australia’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. His book on the inner-workings of the Chinese Communist Party, The Party (Penguin Books, 2010), was translated into seven languages and chosen by the Asia Society and Mainichi Shimbun in Japan as their book of the year.

Discussant

Shivshankar Menon 

Shivshankar Menon is a Distinguished Fellow at CSEP, Visiting Professor at Ashoka University and Chair of the Ashoka Centre for China Studies. He served as National Security Advisor to the Indian Prime Minister (2010-2014); Foreign Secretary of India (2006-2009); and as Ambassador and High Commissioner of India to Israel (1995-1997), Sri Lanka (1997-2000), China (2000-2003) and Pakistan (2003-2006). He has served in the mission to the IAEA in Vienna and in the Department of Atomic Energy in Mumbai.

He was also a Distinguished Fellow with Brookings India. He has published Choices: Inside the Making of Indian Foreign Policy in 2016 and India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present (Brookings Press USA, & Penguin Random House India) in April 2021.

Moderator

Shruti Jargad

Shruti Jargad is a Research Analyst at CSEP. She has a double masters in China Studies and Political Science from Peking University and Jawaharlal Nehru University respectively. She has previously worked at the Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi and Ashoka University, Sonipat. Her research interests lie in the party-state system, China’s domestic politics and its relations in the neighbourhood. She has professional working proficiency in Mandarin Chinese.

Please contact Gurmeet Kaur at GKaur@csep.org for general queries and Ayesha Manocha at AManocha@csep.org for media queries.