PS Suryanarayana

Mr. Pisupati Sadasiva Suryanarayana is a Senior Fellow at the Society for Indian Ocean Studies, New Delhi, and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore, where he was also previously engaged as a full-time researcher until mid-2020. Prior to his engagement in academia, Mr. PS Suryanarayana was a foreign correspondent for The Hindu, where he served successively in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the Asia Pacific region. In this capacity, he interviewed numerous prime ministers, presidents, and foreign and defence ministers across East Asia, Australia, and South Asia (other than India). He also has experience reporting from conflict zones and the capitals of four of the five permanent member states of the United Nations Security Council. As an invited delegate, Mr. Suryanarayana participated in Chinese President Xi Jinping?s Belt and Road Forum in Beijing in 2017 and the 9th Beijing Xiangshan Forum in 2019. Before this monograph, he authored three books: The Elusive Tipping Point: China-India Ties for a New Order (2021); Smart Diplomacy: Exploring China-India Synergy (2016), and The Peace Trap: An Indo-Sri Lankan Political Crisis (1988).