On Monday, August 21, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI), and Thomas J. Christensen, Director of the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program (C&WP), welcomed Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Y.K. Joshi, Director General of the Center for Contemporary China Studies (CCCS) in the Ministry of External Affairs of India, who was leading a delegation to the United States. Lt. Gen. Joshi was joined by five members of the CCCS, the Consul General, and Deputy Consul General of India in New York. On the WEAI side, Professors Xiaobo Lü (Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Political Science at Barnard College) and Junyan Jiang (Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University) were also present.
The far-ranging discussion, covering topics such as China's geopolitical challenges, domestic developments, international relations, military reforms, advancements in science and technology, among others, was as broad as it was deep. The discussants sought to identify key challenges and opportunities in the international order and India’s global rise as well as on India’s ever-more critical role in the world economy, multilateral cooperations, and security.
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Lieutenant General Yogesh Kumar Joshi, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VrC, SM, ADC is a retired General Officer of the Indian Army. He was the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Northern Command. He last served as the Chief of staff of the Northern Command. Previously, he was the commander of Leh based Fire & Fury Corps. As Army Commander he was in office when India and China’s PLA disputed over the status quo on the Line of Actual Control (LAC)
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