Shantanu Roy-Chaudhury is a foreign affairs analyst with an interest in China and its relations with South Asia. He is the author of “The China Factor: Beijing's Expanding Engagement with Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bangladesh, and Myanmar” (Routledge, 2023). Shantanu is currently pursuing his second Master’s degree at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has previously worked at the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) and the Centre for Air Power Studies (CAPS) think tanks in New Delhi. Shantanu has an MPhil from the University of Oxford (St. Antony's College) and a Bachelor’s degree from Hindu College, University of Delhi. He is also a David Rockefeller Fellow at The Trilateral Commission.