Articles

Introduction

India’s G20 presidency culminated in an ambitious transcontinental dream when New Delhi hosted the country’s first G20 summit in 2023. True to its theme, Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam or “One Earth One Family One Future�....

January 30, 2025 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Israel , India , China , Trump , Europe , trade , West Asia , BRI , Trump administration , India-EU FTA , economic strategy , Quantum Technology , IMEC

The American Standpoint and the West Asian Quagmire

Dr Manan Dwivedi Article

West Asia and its conflicts remain embedded in public awareness as a kind of stalemate and a quagmire which has the liability of conflict and war written all over it. Great power interventions have been a bane of existence for the beleaguered region ....

January 15, 2025 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Israel , US , Iran , West Asia , Houthi , Hezbollah , Hamas

Neighborhood News Digest - 09 January 2025

Afghanistan

Islamic Emirate: We Have Not Received Any Financial Aid from US-Tolo News

Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate, has rejected claims of billions of dollars in US aid to Afghanistan, stating t....

January 09, 2025 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Israel , Pakistan , US , economy , Maldives , Myanmar , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Trump , Bhutan , election , Bangladesh , EU , IMF , PTI , Sri Lanka-China , Myanmar-Russia , Maldives-India relations , Resettlement , Rakhine State , PHPA-I dam , Ngultrum , KKH

Iran: Review of Situation as of December 2024

Kingshuk Chatterjee Commentary

Right from the beginning of the Gaza Conflict triggered by the outrage of 7th October 2023, it was very clear that Iran did not want a war with Israel. This was partly because Israeli military capabilities by themselves are demonstrably far more sign....

December 18, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Commentary , Israel , IRGC , Hezbollah , Benjamin Netanyahu , Masoud Pezeshkian

Global Developments and Analysis: Weekly Monitor(21-27 October 2024)

Economic

China Sets Date for Key Meeting at Center of Market’s Stimulus Hopes

China’s top lawmakers are set to meet early next month, a highly anticipated meeting markets view as a key window to announce more stimulus to ....

October 29, 2024 Israel , China , BRICS , TSMC , Covid-19 International Daily Scan , Canton Fair , critical minerals , US Shale , Japan LDP , Kazan Declaration

Neighborhood News Digest- 24 October 2024

Afghanistan

Ministry of Economy Denies Interference in Aid Following OCHA Claims-Tolo News

Recently, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Afghanistan reported an increase in the Isla....

October 24, 2024 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Israel , Pakistan , economy , Maldives , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Bhutan , Qatar , Bangladesh , Kartarpur Corridor , Italy , Germany , India-Bangladesh , China-Sri Lanka , Electricity , CJP , Gross National Happiness , India-Sri Lanka. , interim Government , Multinational Air Exercises , Commonwealth’s Ministerial Meeting on Small States , CMMSS , Maldives-Samoa Relations , Chhatra League , Arugam Bay

Global Developments and Analysis: Weekly Monitor(30 Sept- 06 Oct 2024)

Economic

How China’s 2024 stimulus compares with past packages, and what’s next?

Chinese leaders surprised the world last week by announcing wide-ranging stimulus measures and issuing a rallying cry to Communist Party offi....

October 17, 2024 Israel , Bangladesh , Taliban , Covid-19 International Daily Scan , Ishiba , Marburg , German Economy , China Stimulus Package , Diego Garcia , Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Global Developments and Analysis: Weekly Monitor(23-29 September 2024)

Economic

Xi’s Big Stimulus Week Aims to Draw a Line Under Slowdown

For months, President Xi Jinping appeared unfazed by slowing growth as stocks sank, prices fell, and discontent grew around China. This week showed he’s no....

October 07, 2024 Israel , Stimulus , Arctic , Covid-19 International Daily Scan , Hongkong , Guyana , Anura Kumar Dissanayake , Mekong , Friends of Peace , AggregateEU

Israel’s conundrum about the Day after Scenario in Gaza Strip

Dr Hirak Jyoti Das Article

Israel's security policy has been influenced by a deep sense of regional isolation, vulnerability and asymmetry in terms of small territorial size, limited population, lack of strategic depth, diplomatic weaknesses, limited strategic and economic ass....

September 25, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Israel , US , Joe Biden , Hamas , Palestinian Authority , Benjamin Netanyahu , Abdel Fattah el-Sisi , Philadelphi corridor , Rafah corridor

Israel and the HHH- War of Attrition and Revenge

Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

July 31 was the casting date for a much-feared escalation in the Middle East as Israeli leadership acknowledged killing of the Hezbollah leader Fouad Shukr (July 30) but keeping enigmatic silence on the killing of the Hamas top leader and negotiator ....

August 28, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Commentary , Israel , Gaza , Houthis , Netanyahu , Hezbollah , Biden , Hamas , Ismael Haniyeh