Opinion and commentary

Shyam Saran, a retired diplomat, was number two at the Foreign Ministry in New Delhi and India’s ambassador to Beijing. He is the author of several books on the evolution of Indian diplomacy in Asia and on Sino-Indian relations. His last work How China sees India and the world (Juggernaut, 2022), is a reflection on the ancient rivalries between the two Himalayan neighbors and the evolution of their relations at the dawn of the new millennium.