China and India’s think tanks debate relations

The Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), a think tank supported by the Ministry of Defense, invited academics from the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) for a debate on how to comprehend one another’s perspectives.

“Scholars from the IDSA and the SIIS discussed ways to rebuild trust between the two countries,” the MP-IDSA said in a post on X yesterday night. They also discussed strategic concerns of a regional and global nature.

According to the MP-IDSA, Director Sujan R. Chinoy provided an outline of the two nations’ bilateral relations and emphasized the need for reestablishing mutual confidence.

This is the first time the two sides have met in person since tensions erupted along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in 2020 as a result of China’s incursion into India’s eastern Ladakh province, which sparked the worst military build-up between the two nations since the 1962 conflict.

After 2020, the MP-IDSA and the SIIS, who are partners in the MoU, continued to communicate online.