Manoj Kewalramani quoted in Nikkei Asia on China’s Global Security Initiative

Manoj Kewalramani, chair of Indo-Pacific Studies and a fellow at Takshashila Institution, was quoted in Nikkei Asia on China’s Global Security Initiative. He was quoted as saying,

While the GSI is still in its infancy, Manoj Kewalramani, who runs the Indo-Pacific Research Program at the Takshashila Institution in India, anticipates China finding ways to bolster financial security. At the same time, he sees a number of other fields relevant to the GSI. "Anything with regard to food security, what sort of arrangements can [China] arrive at, whether it is land, or seeds -- any of those cooperative arrangements," he suggested. "Energy, that's another area."

China includes all manner of things under its "comprehensive national security" concept -- including the economy, culture, society, science and technology, cybersecurity, the environment, resources, nuclear technology and overseas interests. "You're exporting that vision, that everything has to be looked at [through] a securitized lens," Kewalramani said.

For example, China "is not looking at cyberspace governance from the perspective of individual rights, privacy, data sharing, corporate rights," he said. "They're fundamentally saying this is a matter of sovereignty."

It is through such reasoning and rhetorical exercises that Beijing seeks to establish new norms and apply its domestic national security apparatus to foreign policy, Kewalramani said.

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