Lowy Institute in Perth: Churning the seas: India-China strategic competition and what it means for Australia - Dr C Raja Mohan
The Asian Century is shaping up to be an era of strategic competition as well as rising prosperity. As China and India expand their economic and military horizons, a complex three-way powerplay with the United States is developing. In this important presentation, leading Indian strategic thinker Dr C Raja Mohan will look at how these dynamics will shape or shake Australia’s region, vitally affecting this country’s interests and choices.
With Lowy Institute colleague Rory Medcalf, Dr Mohan will also look at how Australia can help to manage security tensions and maritime cooperation in the Indian Ocean and the wider Indo-Pacific region. They will be joined by U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich to look also at what these challenges mean for the United States.
Dr C Raja Mohan is one of India’s leading strategic thinkers and commentators. He is Head of Strategic Studies and Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation and is visiting Australia as a Nonresident Fellow and guest of the Lowy Institute.
Dr Mohan is a foreign affairs columnist for The Indian Express newspaper, a Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore, and a Non-Resident Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has served as a member of India’s National Security Advisory Board. His books include: Crossing the Rubicon: The Shaping of India’s New Foreign Policy (2004), Impossible Allies: Nuclear India, United States and the Global Order (2006) and Samudra Manthan: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific (2012).
Ambassador Jeffrey L. Bleich is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Australia.
Rory Medcalf is Director of the International Security Program at the Lowy Institute, Associate Director of the Australia India Institute and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
This event is presented by the Lowy Institute for International Policy, in partnership with the Perth USAsia Centre and In the Zone at The University of Western Australia.
