Global tumult: India as a pole star Chinoy, Sujan

"Sujan Chinoy is Director General of Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi. He was the Chair of the Think20 engagement group for India’s G20 Presidency. A career diplomat for nearly four decades between 1981 and 2018, he held key diplomatic assignments, including as Ambassador to Japan and Mexico. He is a specialist on China, East Asia and politico-military and security issues. He led the Indian side in the India-China Expert Group of Diplomatic and Military Officials (1996–2000) that negotiated confidence-building measures on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the context of the boundary dispute. On assignment to the National Security Council Secretariat of India, he anchored internal and external security issues. His diverse foreign service career also included postings in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Sydney, Riyadh and the Indian Mission to the United Nations in New York. He speaks fluent Mandarin and is conversant in German, Japanese and Spanish, among others. He is the author of the book World Upside Down: India Recalibrates Its Geopolitics (2023). He has also co-edited a wide range of titles including India’s Approach to West Asia: Trends, Challenges and Possibilities (2024), Ukraine War: Military Perspectives and Strategic Reflections (2024), India’s Policy Towards West Asia: The Modi Era (2024), Modi: Shaping a Global Order in Flux (2023), 1971 India–Pakistan War: 50 Years Later (2022), and Asia between Multipolarism and Multipolarity (2020). "