China Centre
Rigorous, data-driven analysis on Beijing's strategic imperatives, its foreign policy, its internal political economy, and its impact on the global order.
Research Focus
The China Centre produces evidence-led analysis on the most consequential relationship in twenty-first century geopolitics, and on the broader implications of Chinese power for India and the Global South.
Indo-Pacific geopolitics: the strategic competition across the maritime Indo-Pacific, China's island-building, naval modernisation, and the QUAD/AUKUS architectures of response.
Technological competition: semiconductors, AI, quantum, and the political economy of decoupling. We track export controls, supply chain reconfiguration, and the contest over technology standards.
Belt and Road and beyond: the evolution of Chinese development finance, the Global Development Initiative, and Beijing's shifting diplomatic posture across the Global South.
Internal political economy: debt, demographics, property, and the political institutions of the People's Republic under conditions of slowing growth.
India–China relations: border dynamics, trade asymmetries, and the long-term strategic equilibrium between two civilisational states.