2015 to 2019: Tons of conferences, lectures and student exchange programmes between JGLS and Chinese law schools. JGLS hires Chinese faculty. Several visits by Chinese ambassador to JGLS (Google search)
May 2020: China invades Indian territory, border clash, soldiers killed
June 2020: Modi govt bans Tiktok and Chinese apps
August 2020: Hindu claims JGLS received summons letter from government:
O.P. Jindal Global University in Haryana, among those on the Ministry’s review list, said the University has established partnerships with various universities in China, but runs its language centre — not with Hanban — but in collaboration with the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.
“We do not have a Confucius Centre. We have not established such a centre or institute. However, as a global university, we teach many foreign languages,” said C. Raj Kumar, Vice-Chancellor of the Jindal Global University.
August 2020: Indian Express claims JGLS met with government after receiving summons:
Amid the heightened tensions between India and China, the Education Ministry Wednesday held a meeting with the University Grants Commission and representatives of higher education institutions to review the work of Confucius Institutes and Classrooms.Seven institutions running Confucius Institutes, including OP Jindal University, Vellore Institute of Technology and Lovely Professional University, attended the meeting.
Nice due diligence but the centre is more than active. Some students just got China India Visiting Scholars (CIVS) Fellowship for a long academic exchange (but at different Chinese and asian universities). This was facilitated by Center for India China Studies (CICS).
Infact we got this mail today for a talk by the Chinese mail on last Tuesday about a talk we have tomorrow
“ Dear All,
Hope all of you are fine. This is to let you know that Chinese Ambassador Mr. Sun Weidong is going to deliver a lecture around the topic of youth and India-China relations on next Monday. If any of you are interested in the participation please let me know by 3:00pm today.”
Pandemic has surely affected things a bit but I don’t think there’s any other factor involved
Bumping this in light of the Newsclick controversy and the global backlash against Xi Jinping. According to the website, no event has taken place since 25 November 2021 and the annual India-China conference has not taken place after November 2019.
Is the centre still active? Curiously, the then MoS external affairs minister was chief guest at the India-China conference, which was pre-Covid. It shows just how much has changed! In fact, now that the BJP is accusing the opposition of being Chinese stooges, the opposition can point to the 2019 conference and ask why the Modi government sent a minister there!
2015: JGLS starts a China centre, signs a bunch of MoUs with Chinese universities and gets a gift of USD 25,000 from the Chinese Embassy in India.
https://jgu.edu.in/jgls/centre-for-india-china-studies/
2015 to 2019: Tons of conferences, lectures and student exchange programmes between JGLS and Chinese law schools. JGLS hires Chinese faculty. Several visits by Chinese ambassador to JGLS (Google search)
October 2019: JGLS posts video celebrating 5 years of the China centre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z58LlW2iaI4
November 2019: Big conference held to celebrate Jindal-China partnership. Speakers include a Union minister, MP Singh, bunch of retired diplomats
https://jgu.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/12th-All-India-Conference-of-China-Studies.pdf
May 2020: China invades Indian territory, border clash, soldiers killed
June 2020: Modi govt bans Tiktok and Chinese apps
August 2020: Hindu claims JGLS received summons letter from government:
O.P. Jindal Global University in Haryana, among those on the Ministry’s review list, said the University has established partnerships with various universities in China, but runs its language centre — not with Hanban — but in collaboration with the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.
“We do not have a Confucius Centre. We have not established such a centre or institute. However, as a global university, we teach many foreign languages,” said C. Raj Kumar, Vice-Chancellor of the Jindal Global University.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-to-review-chinese-language-programmes-across-universities/article32254737.ece
August 2020: Indian Express claims JGLS met with government after receiving summons:
Amid the heightened tensions between India and China, the Education Ministry Wednesday held a meeting with the University Grants Commission and representatives of higher education institutions to review the work of Confucius Institutes and Classrooms.Seven institutions running Confucius Institutes, including OP Jindal University, Vellore Institute of Technology and Lovely Professional University, attended the meeting.
https://indianexpress.com/article/education/education-ministry-meeting-to-review-confucius-institutes-ends-with-no-decision-6541434/
August 2020 to June 2021: Jindal organises hundreds of virtual conferences and lectures.
June 2021: China centre website shows no events since border clash.
https://jgu.edu.in/cics/
Infact we got this mail today for a talk by the Chinese mail on last Tuesday about a talk we have tomorrow
“ Dear All,
Hope all of you are fine. This is to let you know that Chinese Ambassador Mr. Sun Weidong is going to deliver a lecture around the topic of youth and India-China relations on next Monday. If any of you are interested in the participation please let me know by 3:00pm today.”
Pandemic has surely affected things a bit but I don’t think there’s any other factor involved
https://jgu.edu.in/cics/
https://jgu.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/12th-All-India-Conference-of-China-Studies.pdf
Is the centre still active? Curiously, the then MoS external affairs minister was chief guest at the India-China conference, which was pre-Covid. It shows just how much has changed! In fact, now that the BJP is accusing the opposition of being Chinese stooges, the opposition can point to the 2019 conference and ask why the Modi government sent a minister there!