India and China have long jockeyed for influence in the Indo-Pacific region. However bilateral tensions have increased markedly since a border clash last year. With China potentially set to gain further regional and global dominance due to its rapid economic recovery, and with all other major powers under some compulsion to engage with China on a range of issues, how will India position itself in the new world order? How will its relations evolve with the US under the new Biden administration, and to what extent will the US see India as a vital constraint on China’s ambitions under Xi Jinping? To what extent does the brutal second wave of the pandemic in India create an opening for China to further increase its regional influence?

   In the second of a series of online, agenda-setting debates organised by the Financial Times and The Indian Express, foreign policy leaders and thinkers from India and overseas discuss India’s diplomatic standing in the world, especially with regards to China and the US.

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The risks and opportunities associated with India's evolving relations with China and the US

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With policy-makers and influential thought leaders in geopolitics, economics and business who are closely observing India's diplomatic strategies

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The forces at play as India establishes its strategic priorities in the developing geopolitical landscape

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