India-China Relations and Implications for Business

As Asia enters a new era of economic and geopolitical change, with India and China at its centre, the Stepwell Centre for Asian Futures and the Office of Alumni Affairs at Ahmedabad University co-hosted an engaging conversation with Dr Jabin T. Jacob, an expert on China, India China relations and Chinese foreign policy.

Dr Jacob, Senior Visiting Fellow with Stepwell Centre for Asian Futures, applied a sharp geopolitical lens to what these shifts mean for India and Indian businesses. The event was moderated by Professor Sudeep Chakravarti, Executive Director, Stepwell Centre for Asian Futures.

The discussion and ensuing interaction with guests—several of them alumni with active trade relations with China—explored the evolving economic relationship between the two Asian giants and antagonists, supply chains and business resilience, technology and strategic competition, regional alliances and the changing Asian order, risks that businesses need to look out for, opportunities businesses can pursue, and strategic choices that Indian businesses need to prepare for.

Dr Jacob has also written a landmark position paper for Stepwell Centre for Asian Futures on how India should deal with China.

The paper, Rethinking India’s Relations with China can be read here.

For more information, please write to: asian.futures@ahduni.edu.in