GVI Organizes the First Track II Dialogue on China-India Relations

After nearly a year of preparation, Grandview Institution and the UK-based conflict mediation organization Inter Mediate (IM) jointly organized the first “Track II Dialogue on China-India Relations” from March 31 to April 1. The dialogue focused on major, sensitive, and frontier issues in China-India relations, with particular emphasis on exploring the space for China-India cooperation amid changes in the international landscape.

The dialogue invited former senior officials and high-ranking military officers from India’s National Security Advisory Board and Army Headquarters, as well as senior researchers from well-known Indian think tanks. Participants included Rong Ying, former Vice President of the China Institute of International Studies; Wang Weiquan, Deputy Secretary-General of the Renewable Energy Committee of the China Energy Research Society; Zhou Rong, Director of the Center for Global South Studies at Grandview Institution; Shen Dingli, Director of the Center for American Studies at Grandview Institution; as well as several experts from the military.

Experts from both China and India agreed that, after a difficult period, China-India relations have entered an important stage of recovery and development, with considerable room for future growth and enormous potential. The realization of long-term, stable, and positive development in China-India relations is of great significance for Asia as a whole, the Global South, and the broader system of developing countries. Both governments should promote more active, more open, more diverse, and more sustainable exchanges from the governmental to the people-to-people level, and explore systematic cooperation in such fields as AI, energy, and the environment through continuously deepening exchanges and mutual trust.

Ameya Kirpalani, Senior Programme Director at IM; Karolina Altenberg, Senior Programme Assistant at IM; Ren Libo, President of Grandview Institution; Cai Jing, Director of the Department of External Cooperation at Grandview Institution; and others also participated in the dialogue and exchanges.

During the dialogue, the Indian delegation will also call on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Chinese People’s Association for Peace and Disarmament, the Renewable Energy Committee of the China Energy Research Society, and other government departments and research institutions to continue in-depth exchanges.