Amrita Jash

Amrita Jash is an assistant professor at the Department of Geopolitics and International Relations at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) in Manipal, India. She holds a PhD in Chinese Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University and was a recipient of the Pavate Fellowship at the University of Cambridge in 2019. She also received the Chief of the Army Staff (Indian Army) General Bipin Rawat's commendation in 2019 for contributing to the field of Chinese Studies. Dr Jash has been a visiting fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, a UGC graduate fellow (2012-2017), a researcher under the Harvard-Yenching-Nanching Programme (2015), a researcher under China's Ministry of Commerce (2014), and a US-India-China Initiative fellow at the Johns Hopkins SAIS (2013). She is also the author of The Concept of Active Defence in China's Military Strategy (Pentagon Press, 2021). Her research interests are China's foreign policy, the PLA, and security and strategic issues in India-China and China-Japan relations as well as the Indo-Pacific.