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Global Developments and Analysis: Weekly Monitor (01-07 January 2024)

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US becomes world’s top LNG exporter – Reuters
The US emerged as the globe’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for the global market in 2023, Reuters reported on Jan 03, citing tanker tracking and g....

January 17, 2024 South Korea , Iran , Bangladesh elections , NATO , Gaza , Locusts , Covid-19 International Daily Scan , Red Sea , EVs , Patriot Missiles , Somaliland , Top LNG Exporter
West Asia - in the Throes of a Disruptive 2023 and not so Different 2024
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Even as the 2023 turned out to be literally the hottest year in history, West Asia continued to face the equally destabilizing heat in the old and new hotspots. The ongoing wars and conflicts do not portend well for 2024. Hence, more disruptions cou....

January 02, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Israel , Palestine , Gaza , Hamas , Economic costs , IDF , Perceptions
Perceptions and Prospects: Israel-Hamas Conflict
Col Pradeep Jaidka (Retd.) Article

“History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” - Mark Twain Biblical descriptions record the divergent fates of Issac, the patriarch of Israelis and Ishmael, the prophet of Islam, both sons of Abraham. The confluence of places....

January 01, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Israel , Palestine , Gaza , Hamas , Economic costs , IDF , Perceptions
Global Developments and Analysis: Weekly Monitor (11-17 December 2023)

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Israel-Gaza war: Houthi attacks push shipping giants to pause Red Sea voyages
Spiralling attacks on merchant ships by Houthi militants off the coast of Yemen have prompted widespread trade disruption with some of the ....

December 19, 2023 Israel , Myanmar , Ukraine , Gaza , Covid-19 International Daily Scan , US-China relations , Central Economic Work Conference , cop 28 , Red Sea Shipping Attacks , Panama Canal Drought , Putin Conference
Global Developments and Analysis: Weekly Monitor (04-10 December 2023)

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COP28 clashes over fossil fuel phaseout after OPEC pushback
Countries clashed on Dec 09 over a possible agreement to phaseout fossil fuels at the COP28 summit in Dubai, jeopardizing attempts to deliver a first-ever co....

December 13, 2023 Gaza , Covid-19 International Daily Scan , EU-China summit , Nuclear energy , COP28 , UN Article 99 , Israel-Hamas War , Fossil Fuel Phaseout , China-Russia Trade , US-Taiwan FTA , Rapid Financing Facility
Global Developments and Analysis: Weekly Monitor (13-19 November 2023)

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China receives U.S. equipment to make advanced chips despite new rules--report
Chinese companies are buying up U.S. chip-making equipment to make advanced semiconductors, despite a raft of new export curbs aimed at th....

November 23, 2023 Chinese Submarines , Gaza , Covid-19 International Daily Scan , Fentanyl , Xi-Kishida , Xi-Biden , Chip-making Equipment , 2006 China-Japan Proposal , Global Arrangement on Sustainable Steel and Aluminium , Thai Landbridge Project , TikTok ban , APEC Summit
Global Developments and Analysis: Weekly Monitor (06-12 November 2023)

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Australian and Chinese leaders talk pandas and wine as ties improve despite disagreements
The leaders of Australia and China joked about the relative cuteness of pandas and Tasmanian devils on 06 Nov in a largely symb....

November 22, 2023 Taiwan , Kurdistan , BRI , Gaza , Sudan , Oman , Covid-19 International Daily Scan , IPEF , Meta , US debt , WeWork , China-Australia
Global Developments and Analysis: Weekly Monitor (30 October-05 November 2023)

Economic

China hunts for new industrial ‘pillars’ to replace a wobbly property market
As China’s property sector – once a steadfast contributor to a sizeable chunk of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) – be....

November 13, 2023 Gaza , Covid-19 International Daily Scan , Abraham Accords , China property sector , Central Work Financial Conference , CIIE 2023 , AI Summit , China-US nuclear talks
Global Developments and Analysis: Weekly Monitor (23-29 October 2023)

Economic

China Engages in First US Farm-Goods Signing Ceremony in Six Years
Chinese grain companies participated in a formal contract-signing ceremony for the purchase of US farm goods for the first time since the Trump-era tr....

November 13, 2023 US , EU , Gaza , AI , Covid-19 International Daily Scan , Hamas , Gold Prices , Japanese Economy , Trans Caspian Pipeline , Global Gateway , Xi-Biden Summit
Hidden Contours of Israel Hamas Conflict
Col Pradeep Jaidka (Retd.) Article

Hamas executed a well-planned multifaceted military operation, breaching the Gaza fence after neutralizing Israel’s sensors, automatic machine gun towers and communications nodes to execute civilians; take hostages and desecrate bodies of the dead.....

November 09, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Israel , Social Media , Gaza , Hamas , Perception Warfare , Siege , tunnels , Urban Warfare
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