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China-ASEAN Negotiations on Code of Conduct for the South China Sea
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF

It has been reported in the media that China and the ten ASEAN countries have agreed on a single draft of a negotiating text for a Code of Conduct (COC) in the South China Sea (SCS). The formal announcement may be made soon. Negotiations on COC will

August 01, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy, Indo-Pacific, Commentary, South China Sea, Code of Conduct
Working to a Game Plan: Kim Jong-un
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

One has got to give it to Kim Jong-un, or more appropriately, the neo international statesman, who now with a ‘winner’ lapel on his coat is already in the mop up mode of consolidating and furthering the gains of his Singapore Summit. In just a w

July 18, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy, Indo-Pacific, Article, Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s economic re-construction
A Significant Visit from the Land of the ‘Princess of Ayodhya’
Amb Skand Ranjan Tayal

South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in paid a highly significant visit to India on 8-11 July 2018 to cement his ‘New Southern Policy’ of increased focus on India and ASEAN countries. President Moon repeatedly said that his administration’s objec

July 13, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy, Indo-Pacific, Commentary, South Korean President’s visit, India-South Korea relations
Deterrence Failure or Lasting Peace, the Korean Game’s Up for Grabs
Pinaki Bhattacharya

James Clapper, former director of national intelligence of the Barack Obama administration – otherwise a severe critic of the US President Donald J Trump’s various policies 1- recalled in a 19 May 2018 article for the New York Time

July 11, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy, Indo-Pacific, Article, Trump-Kim Summit, Denuclearisation of Korea
Is ‘Democratic Quad’ a Viable Construct?
Dr Vijay Sakhuja

The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD) members - Australia, India, Japan and the United States (US) - met in June 2018 in Singapore on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) senior officials’ meeting, and later issue

July 02, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy, Indo-Pacific, Commentary, QUAD, RIMPAC, Strategic Pertnerships
Beginning of a New End in the Korean Peninsula
Dr Teshu Singh

After almost three and a half months of high-powered diplomacy leading up to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in North Korea, the first meeting between a sitting United States and a North Korean leader took place on 12 June 2018 in Singapore. The mee

June 28, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy, Indo-Pacific, Commentary, US-North Korea relations, Denuclearisation of North Korea
Nuances of a Skewed Agreement- An Analysis
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

As the dust has settled down on the much hyped meeting between President of the United States (POTUS) Mr. Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, the supreme leader of North Korea (DPRK), and after the experts have had their say on denouncing the outcome of t

June 28, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy, Indo-Pacific, Article, Trump-Kim meeting, De-nuclearisation of Korean Peninsula
China and the Kim-Trump Summit
Gunjan Singh
The Trump-Kim Summit: A Mixed Bag
Amb Anil Wadhwa, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

The fact that the much talked about Summit meeting between President Trump and Chairman Kim happened on June 12 in Singapore is an achievement by itself. The world would have been on edge without it. The short document signed, even though shorn of c

June 20, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy, Indo-Pacific, Commentary, US-North Korea Summit, Denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula
Paraktan Harapan Wins in Malaysia after Six Decades: The View from India
Asha Sundaramurthy

The victory of the centre of left wing Paraktan Harapan alliance in Malaysia has been of great interest in Southeast Asia and even beyond, into the Indo-Pacific. Not only because the 57 years reign of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO)-le

June 07, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy, Indo-Pacific, Commentary, Malaysia election, Mahathir Mohammed
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