Articles

Initial Assessment of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Three Nation European Tour

Chinese President Xi Jinping, accompanied by his wife Peng Liyuan, Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) member and Director of the CCP CC General Office Cai Qi and Politburo member and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, arrived in Paris on May 5, on the first ....

May 28, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , China , Xi Jinping , EU , France , Ursula von der Leyen , Macron , Serbia , Hungary , Uyghur protests

Great Game in Reverse: Decoding Central Asia’s Geopolitical Rebalancing

Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

Central Asia’s geostrategic location is critical, making this region a focal point of geopolitical struggle for centuries. In 1904, British geographer Halford Mackinder presented his ‘Heartland Theory,’ in which the Eurasia region is referred t....

November 13, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , China , USA , USAID , Joe Biden , Great Game , Gas pipeline , C5+1 , Macron , Uranium , Halford Mackinder

Global Developments and Analysis: Weekly Monitor (15-21 May)

Economic

War rooms and bailouts: How US is preparing for a default

Convening war rooms, planning speedy bailouts and raising house-on-fire alarm bells: Those are a few of the ways the biggest banks and financial regulators are....

May 31, 2023 QUAD , Taiwan , Aramco , Covid-19 International Daily Scan , Macron , IPEF , Sahel , US Default , Internet Cable projects , Grain deal

Ukraine Standoff also Presents an Opportunity

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

Despite a flurry of diplomatic activity over the last few weeks, the situation around Ukraine is tense. Both Russia and NATO are enhancing their respective military build-up. Putin-Macron discussions held in Moscow on 7 February 2022 failed to res....

February 15, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , US , China , Russia , Putin , NATO , Ukraine , Baltic republics , Macron