Articles

Monthly Compilation of Views of VIF Expert Groups: November 2022

In the month of November 2022 Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organized a total of seven expert group meetings, two interactive sessions with Ambassador’s from Indonesia and Germany in which they shared their perspective of our bilateral....

December 16, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , Chinese Communist Party , Korea , Germany , Islamic Republic , COP27 , India-Indonesia Relations , Iran Protest , Climate Summit

Pelosi’s visit: Who Won? An after Review

Gunjan Singh Article

United States’ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan can be regarded as one of the most surprising events in the international politics. The last visit by a United States speaker to Taiwan was 25 years ago. The major reason given by her fo....

September 01, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Xi Jinping , Taiwan , Chinese Communist Party , United States , China-Taiwan relations , Tsai Ing-wen , Chinese Domestic Politics , Pelosi's visit to Taiwan , China-US relations , One China Principle

Taiwan’s Evolving Security Concerns and Prospects of Cross-Strait Unification

Amit Kumar Article

The ‘Century of Humiliation’ occupies a special place in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ruled People’s Republic of China (PRC) in driving the ruling narrative in the country. It has gained a renewed emphasis under the leadership of General S....

September 17, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Afghanistan , Chinese Communist Party , China-Taiwan relations , Cross-Strait Reunification , Hong Kong Crisis , U.S. Withdrawal , Chinese Rejuvenation , Century of Humiliation

‘Genocide’ in East Turkestan (Xinjiang) – What Can the World Do?

Amb Ashok Sajjanhar Article

Introduction

In one of its last acts before demitting office, the Trump administration declaredthat China was engaged in perpetrating genocide against the minority Uighurs and other Muslim groups in East Turkestan (Xinjiang). Secretary of....

February 12, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , China , Chinese Communist Party , genocide , Human Rights , Forced Labour , Antony Blinken , Han people , Winter Olympics 2022

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, March 26, 2020

Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Strategic

Pompeo says CCP prevented cooperation with United States

In a press briefing on March 25, Pompeo mentioned that the US had tried to work with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) throughout by sending US scientists and ....

March 26, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , Japan , Chinese Communist Party , Coronavirus Outbreak , World Bank , Oil price war , G7 , New York , Food and Drug Administration , COVID-19 Daily Scan

An assessment of the Second Plenum of China’s 13th National People’s Congress

.. convened in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in the first fortnight of March 2019, the annual plenary sessions set the agenda for the year ahead and accorded formal approval of the entire 89 million-strong Chinese Communist Party to the pol....

April 30, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Xi Jinping , Chinese Communist Party , 13th National People’s Congress

What is Happening in Tibet

... Tibetans are imprisoned for expressing their opinions or beliefs ... monasteries are under police surveillance ... the Chinese Communist Party – not Tibetan Buddhists – has the authority to identify and appoint reincarnated Tibetan Lamas, ....

April 20, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies , Tibet , China , Chinese Communist Party , PLA , Dalai Lama , Tibet , Tibetan Lamas , Tibetan Buddhists

"China's Internal Dynamics, Cyber Security and Relations with India"

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organized a seminar titled "China's Internal Dynamics, Relations with India & Cyber Security", along with the Prospect Foundation from Taiwan on 01 November 2017. Dr. Arvind Gupta, Director VIF, and Dr. ....

November 23, 2017 Conference , International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Conferences , Chinese Communist Party , Cyber Security , India-China relations

चीनी कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी का 19वां अधिवेशन

Jayadeva Ranade

लगभग 8.8 करोड़ सदस्यों वाली चीनी कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी सीसीपी का आगामी 19वां अधिवेशन केवल शी चिनफिंग �....

June 23, 2017 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , 19 अधिवेशन , चीनी कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी , 19th Congress , Chinese Communist Party , CCP

The 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party

Jayadeva Ranade

The upcoming 19th Congress of the nearly 88-million strong Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is important not only for Xi Jinping and China, but potentially for China’s neighbours and the world. It will consolidate the course on which China is set. ....

May 18, 2017 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , China , Chinese Communist Party