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New US- China Cold War on Tibet and Take Aways for India

January 12, 2021 Vijay Kranti Article

(The tone and temper of the two latest laws of the USA on Tibet and Xinjiang that US-China honeymoon is over and we should be ready to witness a new phase of US-China cold war. Extraordinary coordination between Republicans and Democrats in both h....

International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , US , China , Tibet

Tags : Article , CPC , Dalai Lama , reincarnation , Beijing-Dharamshala dialogue , CTA , Order-5 , Sikyong , TPSA-2020 , Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act 2020

China’s ‘Helmsman’ and the Game of Monopoly

January 11, 2021 Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

China looms large on Indian public consciousness driven by cataclysmic COVID-19 virus that caused the global pandemic, aggression in 2020 and continued tense face-off in Eastern Ladakh. At the turn of the new decade three events stand out for mention....

International Relations and Diplomacy , China

Tags : Article , India , Xi , Chinese Dream , CMC , CCP , BRI , Uighur , National Defence Law , Mongols , National People's Conference

An Authoritative Chinese Assessment of How China Views India

January 08, 2021 Jayadeva Ranade Article

Far from any signs of an end to the military stand-off between India and China, or that tensions between the two will ease, China’s mood towards India is hardening. There are indications that China sees the current confrontation as the beginning of....

International Relations and Diplomacy , China

Tags : Article , CCP , PLA , Galwan valley , Line of Actual Control , CICIR , Hu Shisheng

शिंजो अबे का “वृहत्तर एशिया” और भारत जापान संबंध

January 08, 2021 Dr Anil Rawat Article

जापान के उत्तर-युद्ध काल के राजनीतिक इतिहास में, उसका कोई प्रधानमंत्री वैश्विक मीडिया, राजनीत�....

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Hindi , Article , एएजीसी। प्रधानमंत्री मोदी। बृहत्तर एशिया। चोसु फाइव। मुक्त एवं खुला हिन्द-प्रशांत क्षेत्र। इतो हिरोबुमि। मीजी इशिन। नोबुसुके किशी। उत्तर-एशियावाद

West Asia – 2020 in Retrospect

January 06, 2021 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Year 2020 will go down in the history not only for the adverse impact of Covid-19 on global and regional economies, lower oil prices, budget deficits, health hazards but when the West Asia region nearly came to a catastrophic war between Iran ....

International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia

Tags : Article , India , China , Russia , Trump , Saudi Arabia , Arab Spring , Turkey , Deal of the century , Netanyahu , Abraham Accords , Al Ula Summit

EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment

January 05, 2021 Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

The EU and China announced a Comprehensive Agreement on Investment on 30th December. The announcement comes less than a month before the inauguration of the Biden Presidency. The development shows a rift opening up between EU and US positions even be....

International Relations and Diplomacy , Europe , China

Tags : Commentary , China , EU , FDI , Forced Labour , Jake Sullivan , Comprehensive Agreement on Investment , Paris Agreement on Climate

भारत और वैक्सिन डिप्लोमेसी

January 04, 2021 Amb Gurjit Singh Article

कोविड-19 वैश्विक महामारी के प्रकोप के बाद वैश्विक विमर्श इसके दुष्प्रभावों और इसके परिणामों से �....

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Hindi , Article , कोविड-19। सार्वजनिक स्वास्थ्य। डब्ल्यूटीओ। दक्षिण एशियाई पड़ोसी देश। भारत बायोटेक। कोवैक्स

Expectations from India in the UN Security Council

January 01, 2021 Amb Asoke Mukerji, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

India starts her eighth two-year elected term in the UN Security Council from 1 January 2021. Three priorities have been identified by India when campaigning for elections to the Security Council. These are the countering of terrorism by enforcing Se....

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Commentary , UNSC , Countering Terrorism , Af-Pak region , P-5 , PM Modii , reformed multilateralism

New Geopolitics: India’s Foreign Policy Challenges in 2021

January 01, 2021 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

Covid-19 has accelerated the global political and economic rebalancing that had been underway for the last two decades. New power equations are emerging. China’s confidence has increased many folds while the West is struggling to find answers to it....

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Article , ASEAN , Act East , UNSC , QUAD , New Cold War , Indo Pacific , BRI , EU , COVID-19 , Neighbourhood First , Multilateralism , LAC , Biden , Middle East , Xi's China

US-Taiwan Relations under Joe Biden Administration

December 31, 2020 Dr Teshu Singh Article

Amongst many of the sensitive issues that Joe Biden will inherit, the US-Taiwan relations is going to be of critical importance for the US, Indo-Pacific strategy. Tsai Ing-wen has already congratulated Joe Biden on Twitter, she wrote: “The values o....

International Relations and Diplomacy , US

Tags : Article , China , Indo-Pacific , Donald Trump , Xi Jinping , COVID-19 , TAIPEI Act , Joe Biden , FTA , US-Taiwan , Alex Azar , Keith Krach , Summit of Democracy