Dr. Hemant Adlakha (Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi), Ananth Krishnan (The Hindu), Dr. Lance Gore (National University of Singapore), Arun Teja Polcumpally (O.P. Jindal Global University), Vatsala Mishra (Asia-Pacific Threat and Risk Analyst), Mr. Ravi Bhoothalingam (Manas Advisory)

In “Social Media in the India-China Conflict”, Ananth Krishnan analyses the role of social media in the 2020 border conflict between India and China, and how it has changed the information landscape. Dr. Lance Gore in his paper, “Socialism without Social Development in China: The Consequences at Home and Abroad” argues omnipresence of the state with a paranoia of losing control has resulted in the shutting down of social space in some areas and its shrinkage in others. In their paper “Current CPC Regime’s Extreme Censorship Control Using Technology”, Arun Teja Polcumpally and Vatsala Mishra argue that the Chinese people accept censorship both due to threat by the regime as well as getting oppressed is ingrained in their psyche and the same is substantiated from the historical trace of censorship which has been normalized in Chinese society.