On April 15, the 7th CPIFA-ICWA Dialogue, co-hosted by the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA) and the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), was successfully held via video link. About 30 delegates headed by Mr. Wang Chao, President of the CPIFA and Dr. T. C. A. Raghavan, Director General of ICWA attended the meeting. Mr. Wang Chao and Dr. T. C. A. Raghavan delivered opening remarks. H.E. Sun Weidong, Chinese Ambassador to India and H.E.Vikram Misri, Ambassador of India to China, delivered congratulatory remarks at the opening ceremony respectively. Delegates had candid and in-depth discussions in Session 1 “Working Together for a Development Agenda of Mutual Interest” and Session 2 “Jointly Coping with the Challenges of the Changing International Structure in the Post-pandemic Era”.

The Chinese delegation included Mr. Zhang Yan, Former Ambassador of China to India, Amb. Ou Boqian, Vice President of CPIFA, Mr. Rong Ying, Vice President of China Institute of International Studies (CIIS), Mr. Ma Jiali, Director of the Center for International Strategic Studies, China Reform Forum (CRF), and experts and scholars from Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS), China Foreign Affairs University, Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Zhejiang International Studies University (ZISU). The Indian delegation included Amb. Ashok K. Kantha, Head of Institute of Chinese Studies, Amb. Anil Wadhwa, Distinguished Fellow of Vivekananda International Foundation as well as experts and scholars from Centre for Regional Trade, Centre for Contemporary China Studies, Centre for East Asian Studies, JNU, etc..