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Neighborhood News Digest – 4 August 2023

Afghanistan

Pakistan, Afghanistan border dispute heats up creating security quagmire – The Print

Pakistan’s unfriendly approach towards its border areas with Afghanistan has resulted in a security quagmire for both countr....

August 04, 2023 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Nepal , Act East , Afghanistan , Border , Climate Change , Taliban , Unemployment , Floods , India-Bhutan , Shehbaz Sharif , India-Sri Lanka , Chief Justice , Japan-Sri Lanka , China Maldives , Swiss investment

Foreign Secretary’s Visit to Myanmar -Reiterating India’s Support to its People

Dr Sreeradha Datta Article

Indian Foreign Secretary was in Myanmar (22-23 Dec. 21) meeting with different stakeholders including the the military government and the opposition which continues to oppose the military reinstatement that took place in February 21 post the general ....

December 27, 2021 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Article , India , democracy , ASEAN , Act East , trade , Aung San Suu Kyi , Nagas , Foreign Secretary , military Junta , Mizos

Visit of Chairman Vietnam’s National People’s Assembly and India-Vietnam Relations

Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF Commentary

Mr. Vuong Dinh Hue, the Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam, visited India from 15 to 19 December to bolster India-Vietnam cooperation in a number of areas. He is one of the important leaders in the quartet of the top leadership and power st....

December 21, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , ASEAN , Indo-Pacific , Act East , strategic partnership , Vietnam , National Assembly , Mr. Hue

India’s Engagement with Nepal and Bhutan: What can India do More?

Amidst rising tensions along India’s northern border, does India’s engagement with Nepal and Bhutan meet its strategic requirements, and what else can India do more? To discuss these questions, a webinar was organised on “India’s Engagement w....

August 12, 2021 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal , Bhutan , Interaction , Act East , Doklam , OBOR , Neighbourhood first policy , Nepalese politics , Himalayan Railway network

New Geopolitics: India’s Foreign Policy Challenges in 2021

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

Covid-19 has accelerated the global political and economic rebalancing that had been underway for the last two decades. New power equations are emerging. China’s confidence has increased many folds while the West is struggling to find answers to it....

January 01, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , ASEAN , Act East , UNSC , QUAD , New Cold War , Indo Pacific , BRI , EU , COVID-19 , Neighbourhood First , Multilateralism , LAC , Biden , Middle East , Xi's China

Denigrating Prime Minister Modi’s Policies in Foreign Journals to Serve Domestic Political Purpose

Amb Kanwal Sibal Article

The Modi government is under attack in influential international media by people of repute in India who ignore the consequences of this for the country’s image abroad. Playing politics at home is one thing, but playing politics abroad with a view t....

August 29, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , China , ASEAN , Act East , QUAD , International Solar Alliance , RCEP , COVID-19 , Neighbourhood First , Multilateralism , WTO , indopacific , Trumpian , Ultra nationalism

Interaction with Ambassador of Japan to India, H.E. Mr. Satoshi Suzuki

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) hosted an online interaction with the Ambassador of Japan to India, H.E. Mr. Satoshi Suzuki on 29 June 2020. The one-and-a-half-hour interaction saw participation by many stalwarts from New Delhi’s str....

July 01, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , Act East , Samvad , COVID-19 , Self-reliance , Ambassador of Japan , standing cooperation , Global Partnership

‘Strangers No More’, by Sanjay Hazarika, Aleph Book Company, pp. 413, Price Rs 799/-

Pinaki Bhattacharya

There are three kinds of media people who travel to the North-East of India: the north-easterners who have had to desert the sylvan vales of their region as economic refugees; career adventure journalists who like to get stellar roles in their chosen....

April 13, 2018 North-East Insurgency , National Security and Strategic Studies , Act East , Government , Armed forces , Book Reviews , North-East , Act Fast

Containment Again: Will this be the Leitmotif of the ‘Quad’?

Pinaki Bhattacharya

Prologue When George F Kennan wrote his ‘Long Telegram’ from the Moscow embassy in February 1946, soon after the death of the three-term president of the USA, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), it was early in arriving. The lege....

January 29, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Indo-Pacific , Act East , Quad Grouping