Prerna Gandhi is an Associate Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi. Previously she has completed her MPhil in Japanese Studies and MA in East Asian Studies from Dept. of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi. With close to a decade of working in international relations research, Prerna writes and speaks on the interplay of developments in China, Japan, Korean Peninsula, Indo-Pacific, ASEAN, and United States etc. An avid watcher of geopolitical developments, she curates the Global Developments and Analysis, a weekly news monitor at the VIF (https://www.vifindia.org/covid-19-international-daily-scan).