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COVID-19 Pandemic and Lessons for Climate Change Responses
PK Khup Hangzo, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

Introduction
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is simultaneously a public health crisis and an economic crisis. On the public health front, it has resulted in 21,527,747 total confirmed cases and 772,370 deaths in 188 countries as of 16 August ....

August 21, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , Article , Climate Change , COVID-19 , Pandemic , lockdown , Green Recovery , Air Pollution , CO2 emissions , dirty recovery , clean and renewable energy , energy transition , low carbon economy , Paris Agreement 2015 , climate crisis , climate emergency
पाकिस्तान और 5 अगस्त-एक साल बाद
Tilak Devasher, Consultant, VIF Article

भारत सरकार द्वारा 5 अगस्त 2019 को जम्मू-कश्मीर के संदर्भ में लिये गए एक ऐतिहासिक निर्णय और उससे जुड�....

August 21, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Article , पाकिस्तान। कश्मीर। आईएसआई। यूएन। गिलगिट-बाल्टिस्तान। हुर्रियत। साइकी। अनुच्छेद 370 का उत्तर-काल।
Sino-Indian Standoff: Can India Rely on USA?
Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Article

The deterioration in China's relations with the USA and India have not entirely uncoincidentally been accompanied by the blossoming of ties between the latter. Nevertheless, as India looks down the barrel of a military confrontation with China, as a ....

August 20, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , China , Trump , BECA , Ladakh , India-US military , Chinese espionage , alliance of democracies , Biden , Uyghurs
Sino- Iran Proposed Accord: China’s Expansionism Continues
Major General (Retd.) Ajay Kumar Chaturvedi, AVSM, VSM Article

Introduction
Sometime back there was a news item that Iran has decided to undertake construction of the Chabahar- Zahedan Railway Line on its own. The reason given was that India who was earlier building that Railway line was going slow on ....

August 19, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Climate Change , Article , India , China , PLA Navy , JCPOA , USA , Chabahar , IRGC , Zahedan , railway line , Khomeini
The Israeli-UAE Deal
Amb K P Fabian Article

On 13th August 2020, President Trump announced that he had brokered a deal between Israel and the U.A.E to normalize relations. It is rather strange that a third country should be the first to announce a deal between two other countries. Obviously, T....

August 19, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Israel , Palestine , Trump , Saudi Arabia , Oman , Netanyahu , UAE , annexation plans , Bahrain
अनुच्छेद 370 ने जम्मू-कश्मीर को भारत में पूरी तरह मिलाया
Amb Kanwal Sibal Article

अनुच्छेद 370 में संशोधन ने हमारी राजनीति में लंबे अरसे से बना हुआ नासूर खत्म कर दिया। 1947 में भारत क�....

August 18, 2020 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , पाकिस्तान , जम्मू-कश्मीर , अनुच्छेद 370 , अनुच्छेद 35 ए , इस्लामी चरमपंथ , सूफी इस्लाम
Western Media Bias against India
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

The Western Media is now more vocal about the growing pervasiveness of moral denunciation through ‘Cancel Culture’ in western societies. Cancel Culture refers to a boycott of someone in professional or social circles that is determi....

August 15, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Information Warfare , Western Media , Cancel Culture , Civilian Awards , Unbiased Journalism , Gulf Countries
Dissecting Macro Focus-areas for India this Decade - World Order, Domestic Economy & Technology
Praveen Menon Article

With the age-old Ram Mandir issue resolved Indian civilization took a step ahead in 2020 even when global and Indian economy took several steps back due to pandemic. A great historic wrong has been corrected which was imposed on our ancestors and the....

August 13, 2020 Economic Studies , Article , China , agriculture , Economics , technology , USA , Indian Economy , Soft Power , Urbanization , Civilization , BRI , military , Geopolitics , FDI , innovation , Financial system , Banking sector , World Order , World War I , World War II , Bretton woods , History lessons , Research , Economic Growth , Farmers , Domestic Economy
Tajikistan: Another Victim of Chinese Belligerence in Central Asia
Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

Introduction
Since the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic, China has shown increasing irredentist tendencies. From the South China Sea to its South and Central Asian neighbours, Chinese territorial encroachment has created fissures in b....

August 12, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Central Asia , Article , China , Russia , Central Asia , Kazakhstan , military base , Tajikistan , Kyrgyz Republic , Debt Trap , Pamir , Land grab , irredentism
China menace decoded by the USA
Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Article

If Sino Indian relations have reached an inflexion point following China's breach of all agreements as demonstrated by their recent actions in Eastern Ladakh so too have Sino-US relations. While the latter had been under stress, since the advent of t....

August 11, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , India , US , China , QUAD , Trump , CCP , Covid , WTO , Huawei , ZTE , LAC , Xi Jinping dreams , Stealing data , FBI cases , Intellectual property , espionage
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