{"id":82942,"date":"2018-11-08T10:45:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T17:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=82942"},"modified":"2018-11-08T10:45:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T17:45:01","slug":"china-center-for-south-asian-studies-and-the-pathfinder-foundation-consolidate-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/11\/08\/china-center-for-south-asian-studies-and-the-pathfinder-foundation-consolidate-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"China Center for South Asian Studies and the Pathfinder Foundation Consolidate Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Gamini Sarath Godakanda Press Release\u00a0Pathfinder Foundation<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A senior academic delegation led by the Vice President of Sichuan University Prof. Yan Shijing and the Director General of the newly established China Center for South Asian Studies (CCSAS) Prof. Sun Shihai visited Pathfinder Foundation (PF), to discuss ways and means of further strengthening links between the two institutions through partnership and collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>CCSAS of Sichuan University is authorised by\u00a0the\u00a0Central Government as one of China\u2019s top think-tanks. CCSAS is committed to play a catalytic and decisive role in analysing the economic, social, security and strategic issues, as well as progress of the countries within the South Asian region, provide policy recommendations to\u00a0the government, and to act as a platform for academic exchange and research cooperation between China and countries in Indian Ocean Region.<\/p>\n<p>Sichuan University (SCU), established in 1896, is one of China\u2019s top universities. SCU has a comprehensive range of disciplines covering 12 categories, and has shown great strength in research and made remarkable achievements over the years. SCU receives around 4000 overseas students from all over the world, including some from Sri Lanka, most of whom study medicine, civil engineering, humanities, economics and management.<\/p>\n<p>The visiting delegation consisted of Prof. Yan Shijing \u2013 Vice President of Sichuan University; Mr. Sun Shihai \u2013 Director General of CCSAS; Prof. Zhang Li \u2013 Professor at CCSAS; Prof. Li Zhiqiang \u2013 Executive Dean of the School of International Studies; Prof. Huang Yunsong \u2013 Coordinator at CCSAS &amp; Associate Dean of the School of International Studies and Dr. Chen Changning \u2013 Deputy Director of Center for American Studies at the School of International Studies.<\/p>\n<p>The Pathfinder Foundation was represented by Bernard Goonetilleke \u2013 Chairman; Lalith Weeratunga \u2013 Senior Fellow; Mr. Luxman Siriwardena \u2013 Executive Director and Director, China Sri Lanka Cooperation Studies Centre; Admiral Prof. Jayanath Colombage- Director Centres for Indo-Lanka Initiatives and Law of the Sea; Mr. K. Balasundaram \u2013 Chief Executive Officer MMBL group of companies; Dr. Zhou Ying \u2013 Associate Director of the China \u2013 Sri Lanka Cooperation Studies Center;\u00a0Ameera Arooz \u2013 Program Manager; \u00a0Gayathri Nanayakkara, Research Analyst, Yasalani Amarasekera, Asst. Program Manager and Sarah Hettiarchchi \u2013 Project Executive.<\/p>\n<p>A round table discussion was conducted by the visiting delegation and Pathfinder Foundation focusing on political, strategic and economic areas impacting on both China and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Sun Shihai and Bernard Goonetilleke were signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the two think-tanks. Both institutions committed to designing and implementing a realistic roadmap that will strengthen and build institutional capacity, joint research projects and exchange of scholars, which would be beneficial to enhancing linkage between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamini Sarath Godakanda Press Release\u00a0Pathfinder Foundation A senior academic delegation led by the Vice President of Sichuan University Prof. Yan Shijing and the Director General of the newly established China Center for South Asian Studies (CCSAS) Prof. Sun Shihai visited Pathfinder Foundation (PF), to discuss ways and means of further strengthening links between the two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}