The Chennai Centre for China Studies (C3S) is an Indian think tank that carries out research on developments in China offering a peninsular perspective and assigns priority to Indian policy interests.
C3S was registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act (1975) in 2008 and is a non-profit organization.
The Young Minds of C3S is an initiative taken by C3S that is designed to encourage a younger generation of China-oriented scholars to contribute to the academic and technical conversation around the subject of China and Indo-China relations.