On 18 May 2016, NISCSS President Wu Shicun visited Indian Observer Research Foundation and shared his ideas with Indian scholars on China's South China Sea policy, the legal status of land reclamation and other hot topics.

Mr. Liu Jinsong, charge d'affaires of Chinese embassy in India, also attended the meeting and made remarks.

The meeting was chaired by Sunjoy Joshi, director of the Observer Research Foundation.

Established in 1990, the Observer Research Foundation is a semi-official academic research institution and is mostly composed of retired government officials, parliament members, judges and military officers.