Nadeem Akhtar is an associate professor at the School of Urban Culture, South China Normal University. He also worked at the India–Pakistan Research Center in the School of International Education, South China University of Technology. He has published in top-notch SSCI journals, book chapters in Routledge, and also presented a number of research papers at national and international academic conferences. Akhtar’s research interests include journalism, intercultural and interpersonal communication, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, etc.