Shantanu Roy-Chaudhury
The International Liaison Department (ILD) of the Chinese Communist Party held 33 engagements in 2025 with representatives from South Asian countries. The department pursued particular interests in each country, reaching out to institutional, incumbent, and peripheral actors.
The greatest shift in the ILD’s South Asia strategy has been rapprochement with India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). This, alongside meetings with opposition and peripheral parties, as well as media, think tanks, and youth groups, suggests that the CCP views party diplomacy not merely as a tool for building influence with smaller neighbors, as in previous years, but as a mechanism for managing major power relations.
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