Swaran Singh Editor's note: Swaran Singh is a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and visiting professor at Research Institute for Indian Ocean Economies, Kunming. The article reflects the author's opinion, and not necessarily the views of CGTN. Tomorrow, the Kunming-based Research Institute for Indian Ocean Economies (RIIO) of the Yunnan University of Economics and Finance -- along with the prestigious Fudan University of Shanghai -- launches China's first Centre for Indo-Pacific Studies (CIPS). Debates around China's engagement with the Indo-Pacific had been an enigma for quite some time but increasingly shows strong potential of emerging as the next critical bridge for cementing the post-Wuhan spirit guiding China-India relations. This prospect remains especially promising as CIPS will be hosted in RIIO which has also been China's first such institution focusing on Indian Ocean economies and its annual Blue Book has since earned a certain v
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