The panel will explore how Africa has become both frontier and partner for India and China in realms of trade, infrastructure, finance, technology, and most recently COVID diplomacy, creating new hierarchies and imperatives for transnational politics in the South. 

Speakers:

Lina Benabdallah:  Assistant Professor, Department of Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University 

Manjusha Nair:  Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University

Xiaoyang Tang: Associate Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of International Relations, Tsinghua University and Deputy Director, Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy

Veda Vaidyanathan:  Visiting Associate Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi