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What happened at World Health Assembly?
Amb K P Fabian

There is considerable confusion as to what happened in the diplomatic bridge game between rising China and declining US, declining at an accelerated pace under President Trump, who holding trumps got trumped badly by President Xi Jinping who finessed

May 25, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, Commentary, US, China, Xi Jinping, COVID-19, World Health Assembly
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 22, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF

Strategic
Two Sessions 2020: China increases defence spending by 6.6 per cent but sets no GDP target, focuses on Hong Kong national security law
Beijing has announced an increase of 6.6 per cent in its military spending, but d

May 22, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, COVID-19, COVID-19 Daily Scan, Daily scan, Face masks, National People’s Congress, Locusts, Remedesvir, Hong Kong, Open Skies Treaty, Economic Prosperity Network, Olympics, Euro
HAIL TO THEE- THE CPC | A POEM
Amb Kanwal Sibal

THE SONG OF XI ( WITH MARTIAL MUSIC) Tibet now is under our yoke, We have made Dalai Lama broke, With monasteries in control And tight surveillance, it’s our goal, The reincarnation process Will be done under our duress. A

May 22, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Commentary, China, democracy, CPC, Xi Jinping, Coronavirus, Shanghai, HAIL TO THEE
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 21, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF

Economic
Coronavirus stimulus inflation risk depends on politics, not economics
What shifts a society from being in the column of present-day Japan or the U.S. to being in the column with Argentina of the 1980s or Weimar Germa

May 21, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, Afghanistan, CPEC, COVID-19, COVID-19 Daily Scan, Daily scan, Green Deal, Inflation, Stimulus, migrant workers, SEC, Satellite Network, Sikkim
The West Bank Jitters
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Last week in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intent of formally annexing some parts of the disputed West Bank to their territory , King Abdullah II of Jordan warned the Israelis and the World especially the US that it will l

May 21, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, West Asia, Commentary, Israel, Palestine, West Bank, Deal of the century, MEPP
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 20, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF

Economic
Celebrities and ostentatious wealth lose their appeal in coronavirus crisis
The outsized egos and ostentatious displays of wealth that were once so captivating now feel weirdly pointless and even irrelevant. But will

May 20, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, CPEC, Tsai Ing-wen, COVID-19 Daily Scan, Inflation, Deflation, Facebook Shops, Reshoring, Qiao Liang, Microelectronics, Drug trials
After South Korea, Vietnam another example to emulate in fighting Covid-19
Prof Rajaram Panda

Introduction
Amongst Asian countries, three countries – South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam – have been successful vis-a-vis the European nations and rest of Asia in containing the spread of the novel Coronavirus or Covid-19. Like South K

May 20, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, Article, Coronavirus, Stakeholder, Contact tracing, Testing kits, Warlike preparation, Farmacia Orient, Low-cost model, Developing vaccine, Medical supplies, Vingroup, Ventilator
Regulating the Use of Autonomous Weapon Systems
Mayuri Mukherjee

Instead of worrying about technical definitions, focus on how humans can retain control over their machines
Terminators running amok; the wanton killing of human beings; the end of civilisation as we know it; these a

May 19, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, Commentary, artificial intelligence, Lethal autonomous weapons, Emerging technologies, UN CCW, International humanitarian law
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 19, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF

Economic
Merkel, Breaking German ‘Taboo,’ Backs Shared E.U. Debt to Tackle Virus
Faced with economic calamity and the threat of the coronavirus further fracturing the European Union, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany on

May 19, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, Taiwan, tariffs, COVID-19 Daily Scan, Inflation, WHA, Merkel, Oil and Gas, Airline Travel, TRIPS, Dengue, BeiDou, Moderna
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 18, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF

Economic
Huawei ban sets up game of chicken between world's biggest economies
Trump's rhetoric on Beijing has turned increasingly aggressive in recent weeks as the coronavirus outbreak worsened in the U.S., but the Commerce De

May 18, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, 5G, West Bank, COVID-19 Daily Scan, Huawei, Antitrust, CNOOC, WHO Summit, Venezuela, Special Operations, Vaccines
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