Manoj Kewalramani is Senior Associate Fellow at MERICS. He is also the Chairperson of the Indo-Pacific Studies Programme at the Takshashila Institution and a Senior Associate (Non-resident), Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS. Manoj’s research interests range from Chinese politics and foreign policy to great power competition. He is the author of Smokeless War: China’s Quest for Geopolitical Dominance, which discusses China’s political, diplomatic, economic and narrative responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Manoj has twice testified as an expert witness before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He publishes a daily newsletter analyzing policy discourse in the People’s Daily.