Lin Minwang is professor and assistant dean at the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University, and also deputy director of the university's Institute of South Asia Studies. His main research areas include international relations in South Asia, with a focus on China-India relations, and China's foreign policy. He is the author of two books, Choosing War, and The BRI and Geopolitics in South Asia.
Though public opinion in India has never been friendly towards Beijing, the voices raised now in concert blaming China for the spread of the coronavirus and questioning its motives in extending help to other countries are disconcerting.