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Thank you for registering for the Founding Fuel Masterclass series on The World in 2025. The second part is scheduled for Friday, 7th February 2025, 6:30 pm on Zoom (Link to join). This newsletter is part of a series designed to help you prepare for the event, featuring insights about and from our panellists. | | | | | Shyam Saran is India’s former foreign secretary and is currently the President of India International Centre. An economist by training, he retired from the Indian foreign service in 2004 and was the Prime Minister’s Special envoy for nuclear affairs and climate change for two years each.
“India is a retreating image in China’s rear view mirror,” that’s how former foreign secretary Shyam Saran describes how India is perceived by its neighbour. Saran, a career diplomat, who was at the forefront of shaping some of India’s most important foreign policy achievements, is well known for his realism and pragmatic approach to finding solutions.
After the border clashes in Galwan in 2020, Saran said that the “asymmetry of power with China was not cast in stone” and India, in every respect, was capable of surpassing it. But it repeatedly fails to deliver on its potential.
Saran was instrumental in shepherding the nuclear deal between India and the US in 2008, perhaps the most important milestone of his career. The deal transformed India’s relations with America and paved the way for a greater role for it in the Indo-Pacific region.
His depth of knowledge and understanding as a practitioner of India’s foreign policy shines through in the two books he has written and the articles he continues to publish. | | | | | | - Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Nuclear Affairs and Climate Change
- Chairman, Research and Information System for Developing Countries
- Chairman, National Security Advisory Board under the National Security Council
- Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
- India’s Ambassador to Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, and High Commissioner to Mauritius
- Member, advisory board, Global Panel Worldwide
| | | | | | - President, India International Centre
- Honorary Fellow, Centre for Policy Research
| | | | | | - Padma Bhushan
- Spring Order Gold and Silver Star by the Emperor of Japan for promoting India-Japan relations.
| | | | | | - How China Sees India and the World
- How India sees the world: Kautilya to the 21st century
| | | | | | 📄 Trump's disruptive agenda: US-China rapprochement may pose risks for India, January 2025, Business Standard (Read time 4 mins)
📄 China turns to Global South ahead of Trump tariffs, India needs to be wary, December 2024, Business Standard (Read time 4 mins)
🎧 South Asia Must Meet Challenges Head-on, December 2024, The Wire (Watch time 47 mins)
🎧 India is a Retreating Image in China's Rear-View Mirror, June 2022, The Wire, (Watch time: 43 mins)
| | | | | | 💡 Tomorrow - Briefing: The view from Delhi
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