Amb. Sujan R. Chinoy

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Amb. Sujan Chinoy is the Director General of the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi since 2019. A career diplomat from 1981-2018, he held several important diplomatic assignments, including as Ambassador to Japan. He is a specialist on China, East Asia and politico-military and security issues. He anchored as a team leader the CBMs/peace and tranquillity issues related to the India-China boundary dispute between 1996 and 2000. On deputation to the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) from 2008-2012, his expertise covered external and internal security issues including the extended neighbourhood of the Indo-Pacific.  He has served as Consul General in Shanghai and Sydney and has extensive experience in trade, investment and economic issues. He is the Chair of the Think20 engagement group for India G20 Presidency. He regularly contributes to newspapers and journals, besides lecturing in India and overseas. He schooled at the Rajkumar College (Rajkot), read English Literature at the Maharaja Sayajirao University in Vadodara, Gujarat, and gained his Master of Business Administration from Gujarat University in Ahmedabad. He has an advanced Diploma in Chinese (Mandarin) from the New Asia Yale-in-China Chinese Language Centre of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  He was an Exchange Student at the Otemon Gakuin University in Osaka in 1978. He is fluent in English, Chinese (Mandarin) and conversant in French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Arabic, Urdu and French-Creole. He also speaks Hindi and Gujarati.

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New America-India partnership opens up the potential for a multi-polar Asia

Director General and Chair of Think-20 (India's G20 Presidency) Amb Sujan R. Chinoy’s opinion piece on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to USA and the key drivers of the India-America strategic partnership which is fundamental to peace and prosperity in the Indo Pacific and for a multipolar Asia, has been published in Indian Express on 11 July 2023.

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  • Published: 11 July, 2023
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Chinese shenanigans on Arunachal Pradesh

Director General, Manohar Parrikar IDSA and Chair of Think-20 (India's G20 Presidency) Amb Sujan R. Chinoy’s article ‘Chinese shenanigans on Arunachal Pradesh’ has been published in ‘The Hindu’ on 18 April 2023.

The State represents the finest of India’s cultural and civilisational heritage, and there is absolutely no basis to the Chinese claim over any part of Arunachal Pradesh, says Amb Chinoy.

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  • Published: 18 April, 2023
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The US is clear that Arunachal Pradesh is a part of India. Why doesn’t it take a stand on Aksai Chin?

Director General, Manohar Parrikar IDSA and Chair of Think-20 (India's G20 Presidency) Amb Sujan R. Chinoy’s article ‘The US is clear that Arunachal Pradesh is a part of India. Why doesn’t it take a stand on Aksai Chin?’ has been published in ‘The Indian Express’ on 18 March 2023.

Its ambiguous stand on the boundary dispute in Ladakh limits the possibility of ground-level cooperation between India and the US in the western sector, unlike the wider possibilities for naval collaboration in the Indo-Pacific, writes Amb Chinoy.

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  • Published: 18 March, 2023
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A Case to Promote Border Tourism

Director General, Manohar Parrikar IDSA and Chair of Think-20 (India's G20 Presidency) Amb Sujan R. Chinoy’s article ‘A case to promote border tourism’ has been published in ‘The Hindu’ on 09 March 2023.

Amb Chinoy highlights the need to promote border tourism but on the basis of proper norms and feasibility studies.

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  • Published: 9 March, 2023
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Celebrating the Journey of the Indian Armed Forces and the Way Forward

The journey of the Indian Armed Forces over the last 100 years has in many ways mirrored the momentous history of the birth, struggles and victories of India. It straddles a colonial period in which the armed forces of India owed allegiance to a foreign sovereign and could readily be used to fight an alien power’s wars and promote its strategic objectives. This did not however erode the heroism and professionalism that the Indian armed forces came to be known for over two centuries.

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India-China: Between Pre-1962 and Now

Director General, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Amb Sujan R. Chinoy’s article ‘India-China: between pre-1962 and now’ has been published in ‘The Hindu’ on 02 January 2023.

The biggest difference today is the political will of the Modi government and the Indian army to block Chinese patrols, says Amb Chinoy.

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  • Published: 2 January, 2023
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India’s G20 Presidency: Setting the World Agenda

Director General, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Amb Sujan R. Chinoy’s article ‘India’s G20 Presidency: Setting the world agenda’ was published in ‘The Indian Express’, on 02 December 2022.

Think20, the ideas bank of G20, will engage with the gamut of issues – strategic, economic and structural – that confront all countries, said Amb Chinoy.

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  • Published: 2 December, 2022
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G20 presidency: An opportunity for India to assume leadership of the Global South

Director General, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Amb Sujan R. Chinoy’s piece on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’'s address at the G20 Summit and way forward, titled ‘G20 India Presidency: An opportunity for India to assume leadership of the Global South’ has been published in ‘The Indian Express’ on 17 November 2022.

In his Bali address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi pointed to the growing relevance of the G20. His call for a new world order is a reflection on the failure of the global community to reform multilateral institutions, says Amb Chinoy.

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  • Published: 17 November, 2022
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Tightening the Noose Around Terror Financing

Director General, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Amb Sujan R. Chinoy’s piece ‘Tightening the noose around terror financing’ has been published in Hindustan Times on 16 November 2022.

Unless global terrorist networks and financing are uprooted in Pakistan, it would be difficult to subdue terrorism, says Amb Chinoy.

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  • Published: 16 November, 2022