Ambassador Shivshankar Menon

India and China successfully managed their relationship for almost forty years. Recently, however, a narrative of India and China as destined for conflict has taken hold in public discourse in both countries. This lecture, with Ambassador Shivshankar MENON, will examine whether this is so, and the role of changing Asian geopolitics in the shifting prospects of India-China relations.
*Shivshankar Menon is a former National Security Advisor to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He was also Foreign Secretary of India, and has served as the Indian Ambassador or High Commissioner to China, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Israel.
*He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP), India, and a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute, New York.
*In 2016 he published Choices: Inside the Making of Indian Foreign Policy (Brookings & Penguin Random House, 2016).