Public lecture on 'China–India dynamics and Nepal’s role in Indo-Pacific region' organized

Kathmandu, Oct 28: The Nepal Institute for International Cooperation and Engagement (NIICE) organized a public lecture on “Rising Power Competition: Indian and Chinese Commercial Landscapes in the Indo-Pacific”. The event was held on Monday at the NIICE Seminar Hall, Hattiban, Lalitpur.

The lecture was delivered by Mr. Daniel Loebell, PhD Candidate in Political Science at Northwestern University, USA, who emphasized how the strategic and economic rivalry between India and China is reshaping the Indo-Pacific region and influencing smaller South Asian states, including Nepal and Malaysia. In the opening remarks, Bibek Dhoj Thapa, Program Coordinator at NIICE, clarified about why NIICE is researching in the Indo-Pacific framework referring to research undertaken by Dr Pramod Jaiswal, Research Director of NIICE.