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India-China-U.S. ties under focus

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Meet to identify areas of strength

KOCHI: Kochi will host an international conference on the ‘India-China-U.S. Triangle’ on the SCMS campus, Muttom, near here, from January 21 to 23. The event is being convened by the Centre for National Renaissance, New Delhi, in association with John Fairbank Centre, Harvard University, U.S.; the Institute for International Studies and Centre for China in the World Economy, Tsinghua University, China.

In an interaction with The Hindu here on Wednesday, chairman of the New Delhi-based Centre for National Renaissance, Subramanian Swamy said the conference would address questions on the economic and military growth of India and China in the coming decades and obstacles to such growth. It will identify areas of relative strength and sources of economic growth for both.

Dr. Swamy said discussions on the implications for the U.S. in such a scenario would be discussed at the event. It will debate the question whether the U.S. would be able to strategically partner India or China, or both for a new world order.

Terming the event a ‘pure academic exercise,’ Dr. Swamy said the conference would deliberate on the bilateral and trilateral relations of these three nations in the coming decades. It would be of extraordinary global interest, as India, China, and the U.S. were the three most populous nations of the world, together comprising 43 per cent of the global population.

The speakers include John Garver of Georgia Tech University, U.S.; Subramanian Swamy, Yan Xuetong, Director, Institute of International Studies, Tsinghua University, China; S. Krishnaswamy, former Air Chief Marshal; Pan Zhenjiang, former PLA General, Tsinghua University, China; Jaswant Singh, former External Affairs Minister; Wang Yijiang of Tsinghua University, China; Sujit Dutta of the Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis, India; Roderick Macfarquhar of Harvard University; M.D. Nalapat, Professor of Peace Studies, Manipal University; Sun Zhe of Tsinghua University, China; Sanjaya Baru, Media adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh; Marshal Goldman of Harvard University, U.S.; Yitzhak Shichor of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Hu Shisheng, Director, CICIR, China; Li Dakui, Professor of Economics, Tsinghua University, China; Penelope Prime of Mercer University, U.S.; Dwight Perkins of Harvard University; S.J. Burki, former Finance Minister of Pakistan; Salman Haidar, former foreign secretary of India; Merle Goldman of Harvard University; Tang Lu of Xinhua News Agency, China, and N. Ram, Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu.

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