| Event Title: | Seminar |
| Topic: | Shaping Asia's Future: Chinese and Indian Perceptions |
| Date/Time: | 26 February 2015 | 00:00 - 21:43 |
| Venue: | Room 4-3, Level 4, Block B, Bukit Timah Campus, NUS |
| Speaker/s: | Professor Paul Evans, Professor, Institute of Asian Research and Liu Institute for Global Issues, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver; and Visiting Professor of International and Asian Studies, Singapore Management University |
| Description: | It has become almost a clich?® to suggest that both India and China have become very important players in contemporary global politics. More specifically, many observers have suggested that relations between these two Asian states will structure AsiaÔÇÖs future in significant ways. ChinaÔÇÖs Maritime Silk Road initiative is the most recent exposition of ChinaÔÇÖs vision for AsiaÔÇÖs economic and strategic future. India, on the other hand, with the election of Narendra Modi, has been engaged in a renewed quest to historically transform its relations with the United States and its allies in East Asia. Will India need to offer an alternative vision to ChinaÔÇÖs Maritime Silk Road initiative? Does China require to deploy greater political capital to overcome the seeming disquiet in East Asia over its response to maritime disputes in both the South and East China Sea? This discussion aims to focus on, but not limited to, some of these issues. |