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From Mask to Vaccine Diplomacy: A Critical Year Ahead for China

February 04, 2021 Dr Teshu Singh Article

The year 2020 will go down in the history of China as an “extraordinary year”. The passing year started with the onslaught of coronavirus throughout China and eventually it spread to the world. (The virus had started spreading since November 2019....

International Relations and Diplomacy , China

Tags : Article , NPC , CPC , Belt and Road Initiative , Xi Jinping , Taiwan , WHO , COVID19 , Hong Kong , Dual Circulation , Mask Diplomacy , Vaccine Diplomacy , Xiaokang , Health Silk Road

Influences and Performance of Intelligence: Assessment of Intelligence Inputs in 2020 Ladakh Military Standoff

February 03, 2021 Col Pradeep Jaidka (Retd.) Article

‘The further one looks back, the further he looks ahead’ Historically, military might alone served as the primary instrument of national power and for securing national interests. Later diplomacy, economic power, science and technology ....

National Security and Strategic Studies , International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Tibet

Tags : Article , UAV , Aksai Chin , Ladakh , ISR , Pangong Tso , intelligence gaps , PLA Tibet

India-China Line of Actual Control: Increasingly Fuzzier…

January 29, 2021 Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Though comparisons are odious, Line of Control (LOC) and Line of Actual Control (LAC) are chalk and cheese! The Karachi Agreement of 1949 delineated the Ceasefire Line (CFL), following directional paths in the absence of clear landmarks, by demarcati....

International Relations and Diplomacy , China

Tags : Article , LoC , Aksai Chin , LAC , Pangong Tso , salami slicing , Simla Convention , Scarborough Shoal

The Pitfalls of the China-EU Comprehensive Agreement on Investment

January 24, 2021 Jeff M. Smith | Dr James Carafano | Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

On December 30, leaders from Brussels and Beijing reached terms on a new China-EU Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI). After seven years of negotiations, the deal will reportedly grant the EU enhanced market access in China, in sectors such a....

International Relations and Diplomacy , Europe , China

Tags : Article , India-EU Relations , China-EU investment treaty , China-EU relations , Transatlantic China , Transatlantic cooperation , U.S.-Europe relations

Xi Jinping Further Strengthens Chinese Communist Party’s ‘Magic Weapon’-The United Front Work Department

January 19, 2021 Jayadeva Ranade Article

China is making efforts to arrest the slide in US-China relations and lower temperatures after Joe Biden takes over as President on January 20. In addition to Chinese Politburo member and former Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi’s plans for visiting Was....

International Relations and Diplomacy , China

Tags : Article , Xi Jinping , CCP , rejuvenation of Chinese nation , United Front Work Department , UFWD

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

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

China Debates Policy towards U.S. as Biden’s Administration Takes Over

December 30, 2020 Jayadeva Ranade Article

China’s leadership echelons have been very apprehensive about anti-China actions the Trump Administration might take in its last days. Zhou Li, a former career diplomat who is presently senior researcher at the Chongyang Institute of Financial Rese....

International Relations and Diplomacy , China

Tags : Article , China , Qiao Liang , Biden , Jake Sullivan , six scenarios , US China competition , Xi Jinping thought