On 20th July, 2022, Amb. Rajiv Bhatia, Distinguished Fellow, Gateway House, chaired a session on ‘Geopolitical Shifts and Opportunities: New Horizons in India-Southeast Asia Relations‘ at the International Conference to Commemorate Thirty Years of India-ASEAN Relations. It was organized by the Indian Council on World Affairs (ICWA), New Delhi.
The theme of the session was Regional and Global Trends which revolved around the key issues, global and regional trends such as increasing competition and great power rivalry which impacts the global and regional political and economic dimensions. The speakers included Southeast Asia: Dr. Kuik Cheng-Chwee, Head and Associate Professor, Centre for Asian Studies, Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), National University of Malaysia (UKM), Bangi; Dr. Rahul Mishra, Director, Centre for ASEAN Regionalism, Universiti Malaya (CARUM), Kuala Lumpur. India: Prof. Shankari Sundararaman, Centre for Indo-Pacific Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi; Prof. B. R. Deepak, Professor of Chinese and China Studies, Centre of Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi.