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Priyanka Pandit is China Studies Post-Doctoral Fellow supported by Ashoka University and Harvard Yenching Institute at the Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar University. Her research focusses on the politics of China’s economic reform, China-India economic relations, theories of international negotiations and China’s engagement in multilateral economic institutions. She holds M.Phil and Ph.D.in Chinese Studies from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Masters in East Asian Studies from the University of Delhi. Her doctoral thesis examined China’s policies towards the State-Owned Enterprises, with special focus on the telecommunications, oil and banking sectors. She was formerly Research Fellow at the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), New Delhi and Visiting Fellow at the Chongyang Institute of Financial Studies, Beijing. Before joining ICWA, she taught at the Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, where she also pursued an intensive year-long course in Mandarin. She is currently completing her book project on China’s negotiating strategies at the World Trade Organisation.