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China’s Systemic Mistreatment of its Religious Minorities

February 14, 2023 Rakshith Shetty Article

The Middle Kingdom and Its War against Religion: A Historical Perspective When speaking to military students at Nankai University in 2013, Chinese professor Ai Yuejin said the following: “Do you know what the foundation for our nati....

International Relations and Diplomacy , China

Tags : Article , China , Buddhism , Dalai Lama , religion , Demography , Tibet , Xinjiang , Human Rights , Hans

Disentangling the Perceptions of ‘Grey Zone Warfare’!

February 08, 2023 Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

One of our most serious problems today is defining what war is. Historically, war and warfare have rigid definitions, and national security and military doctrines, the capabilities and structures are designed to respond to those definitions. Wars wer....

International Relations and Diplomacy , China

Tags : Article , LAC , Sun Tzu , no war no peace , Grey Zone warfare

India China Border Dispute Packets of Information to Continuous Spectrum

January 27, 2023 Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.) Article

China Factor: A Seven Decades Old Dispute Debated on Packets of Information In recent times - especially after the Galwan incident of 15 June 2020, Sino Indian border dispute is the most intensely debated topic in Indian media. The cont....

International Relations and Diplomacy , China

Tags : Article , Aksai Chin , Sino-India border disputes , Depsang Plains , Annexation of Tibet , Kongka incident

The Outlook for 2023

December 28, 2022 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

The year 2022 will go down in history in which the great power rivalries returned with a vengeance. Even as the Covid pandemic lingered on, the world saw a major conflict erupting in Europe, bringing in its wake huge supplychain disruptions, an unpre....

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

Tags : Article , Pakistan , China , SCO , economy , hybrid war , Terrorism , 2022 , G20 , health , Gulf , Extreme weather , Russia Ukraine war , Global Agenda , multilateral fora , 2023 , Outlook , Trends

Xi Jinping’s Growing Bonhomie with Saudi Arabia: Implications

December 27, 2022 Prof Rajaram Panda Article

There is a geopolitical reset centring in the Middle East where the US influence seems to have waned while China’s clout shows sign of growing. This assertion is backed by the development when the Chinese President Xi Jinping after securing an unpr....

International Relations and Diplomacy , China

Tags : Article , Xi Jinping , BRI , MBS , international politics and diplomacy , Khashoggi , oil diplomacy , repositioning global order

Chinese President Jiang Zemin’s Demise Reveals Extent of Discontent in China

December 22, 2022 Jayadeva Ranade Article

Recent events have confirmed the considerable subterranean discontent in China. The death of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who was handpicked by the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping to steer the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the country ....

International Relations and Diplomacy , China

Tags : Article , Protests , CCP , Covid , Tiananmen Square , Jiang Zemin

US-China Tech Rivalry: Pentagon Report on China’s Emerging Technology Strategy

December 21, 2022 Dr Saroj Bishoyi, Research Fellow, VIF Article

On 29 November 2022, the US Department of Defence released the 2022 annual report on “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China” in which “China’s drive to dominate emerging technologies” figure prominent....

International Relations and Diplomacy , US , China , Technological and Scientific Studies

Tags : Article , India , US , China , artificial intelligence , Indo-Pacific , Internet of Things , PLA , Big Data , semiconductors , Quantum Technologies , Autonomous Systems , Cloud Computing , Emerging Technology , Informatised Wars , Made in China 2025

The world according to Washington

December 15, 2022 Amb P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

US’ drive for a global order in economy and trade comes up against China’s economic interlinkages with the West. At his recent meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Bali, US President Joe Biden told him that the United States wil....

International Relations and Diplomacy , US , China

Tags : Article , Xi Jinping , Joe Biden , Chinese President