Pratyaksha Saxena is an intern with the Centre for China Analysis and Strategy. She has completed M.A. from Centre for Chinese and South-East Asian Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She was awarded Chinese government scholarship in 2018 to study one-year advanced Chinese at Nankai University, China. Her areas of interest are China’s domestic politics and China’s influence operations in South-east Asia.