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The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor of the Belt and Road Initiative Concept, Context and Assessment by Siegfried O. Wolf, Springer, Switzerland, 2020, £88, ISBN 978-3-030-16198
Aakriti Vinayak

The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a flagship of China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative that was officially launched in April 2015, promised to be a game changer. The economic corridor that would link Kashgar in Xinjiang to Gwadar in....

May 23, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , China , China , Belt and Road Initiative , CPEC , China-Pakistan Economic Corridor , Book Reviews
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 21, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

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
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 20, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

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
Round Table Discussion on China-Pakistan Nexus

The VIF organized a Round Table Discussion (RTD) to discuss the China-Pakistan Nexus. Dr Arvind Gupta, Amb Satish Chandra, Amb Ashok Kantha, Amb TCA Rangachari, Amb Amar Sinha, Mr Tilak Devasher, VAdm Satish Soni, Lt Gen Ravi Sawhney and Cmde Gopal ....

March 23, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Interaction , Afghanistan , CPEC , China-Pakistan Nexus , China-Pakistan alliance , India-Pakistan
The Belt and Road Initiative: Is it Viable?
Dr Teshu Singh Commentary

Recently, the US diplomat Alice Wells speaking at the Wilson Center at Washington D.C., criticised the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and questioned the economic feasibility of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).1 She reiterated that ....

December 09, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , US , China , Belt and Road Initiative , CPEC
Interaction with the Delegation from Shanghai Institute of International Studies

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) hosted a delegation from Shanghai Institute of International Studies on 19 September 2019 at VIF. The delegation was led by Dr Chen Dongxiao, the other members of the delegations were Liu Youfa (served a....

October 22, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Interaction , ASEAN , Indo-Pacific , CPEC , US-China trade , India-China relations , Act Far East , Shanghai Institute , Middle East
Interaction with the Delegation from China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), China

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) hosted Dr Lou Chunhao, Deputy Director Institute of South Asian Studies and Dr Zhang Shujian from the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR). The opening remarks were delivered ....

August 28, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Interaction , UNSC , CPEC , Article 370 , BRI , Informal Summit
Understanding China’s Belt and Road Initiative

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised a seminar on 8 April, 2019, on ‘Understanding China’s Belt and Road Initiative’. The deliberations were divided in three broad themes: Aims and Drivers of the Belt and Road Initiative (BR....

July 11, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Seminars , India , CPEC , China’s Belt and Road Initiative , Southeast Asia , BRI
China’s Great Leap Forward-II, by Lt Gen Gautam Bannerjee, PVSM, AVSM, YSM (Retired), Lancer Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi, India, 152 pages, INR 595/-, 2019
Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty

The Great Leap Forward was a campaign run in the People’s Republic of China from 1958 to 1962. Chairman Mao Zedong led the campaign and the aim was to transform an agricultural economy to a socialist society through rapid industrialisation and coll....

May 31, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , OBOR , CPEC , PLA , Book Reviews , China’s Great Leap Forward , Republic of China , CMEC , BCIM
China's Great Leap Forward II
Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee

Development of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor is a fulcrum of the One Belt One Road Initiative through which China seeks to realise the ‘Chinese Dream’ to be a global power and a regional hegemon. The Corridor connects China’s Western Xin....

April 05, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , POK , CPEC , Book Published , North-Western Kashmir , Pakistan Occupied Kashmir
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