India and China: Today and Tomorrow
VIEW EVENT DETAILSA complex India–China relationship today reflects efforts by both governments for over twenty years to improve relations frozen since 1962. The boundary question has not yet been resolved, however, and China's recent assertiveness along its periphery combined with accelerating military capabilities causes anxiety in India.
Meanwhile, the economies of both grow rapidly with increasing exchanges of goods and services. The two governments have learned to manage differences. The future relationship between these two Asian giants will be bright if they can cooperate in their shared neighbourhoods, but dark if mistrust and rivalry dominate perceptions.
Please join Dr. Surjit Mansingh, recently returned from an expedition to China, for a fascinating discussion on India-China relations and their influence on politics, economy and culture at the crossroads of Asia.
Dr. Surjit Mansingh is presently a Visiting Scholar at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. She recently retired from her position of Professor of International Politics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where she specialized in the comparative analyses of foreign policies including China and India. She had previously taught at Universities in the United States, Italy and India, and began her career in the Indian Foreign Service. She took her B.A. (Hons) and M.A at Delhi University, and her Ph.D. from the American University, Washington D.C. Surjit Mansingh is a frequent participant in International Conferences held in China, Europe, India and the U.S. and regularly publishes in scholarly journals. She is the author of Historical Dictionary of India (1996), India's Search for Power: Indira Gandhi's Foreign Policy (1984), and co-author of Diplomatic History of Modern India (1971). She edited Prospects for India-United States Relations (2001), Nehru's Foreign Policy, Fifty Years On (1998) and Indian and Chinese Foreign policies in Comparative Perspective (1998).
Meanwhile, the economies of both grow rapidly with increasing exchanges of goods and services. The two governments have learned to manage differences. The future relationship between these two Asian giants will be bright if they can cooperate in their shared neighbourhoods, but dark if mistrust and rivalry dominate perceptions.
Please join Dr. Surjit Mansingh, recently returned from an expedition to China, for a fascinating discussion on India-China relations and their influence on politics, economy and culture at the crossroads of Asia.
Dr. Surjit Mansingh is presently a Visiting Scholar at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. She recently retired from her position of Professor of International Politics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where she specialized in the comparative analyses of foreign policies including China and India. She had previously taught at Universities in the United States, Italy and India, and began her career in the Indian Foreign Service. She took her B.A. (Hons) and M.A at Delhi University, and her Ph.D. from the American University, Washington D.C. Surjit Mansingh is a frequent participant in International Conferences held in China, Europe, India and the U.S. and regularly publishes in scholarly journals. She is the author of Historical Dictionary of India (1996), India's Search for Power: Indira Gandhi's Foreign Policy (1984), and co-author of Diplomatic History of Modern India (1971). She edited Prospects for India-United States Relations (2001), Nehru's Foreign Policy, Fifty Years On (1998) and Indian and Chinese Foreign policies in Comparative Perspective (1998).
Event Details
Mon 27 Jun 2011
Asia Society Washington, The Cinnabar Room, Whittemore House, 2nd Flr., 1526 New Hampshire Ave, NW
Asia Society members: $10; Asia Society non-members: $15