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

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

Bilateral Meeting Vivekananda International Foundation (India) & the Pathfinder Foundation (Sri Lanka)

On 17 August 2020, the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised a bilateral meeting in collaboration with the Pathfinder Foundation (Sri Lanka) on “India - Sri Lanka relations”. Dr Arvind Gupta - Director of the VIF, welcomed the part....

August 29, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka , BIMSTEC , Security , Indian Constitution , Article 370 , COVID-19 , Pandemic , Ayodhya Mandir , Indo- Sri Lanka economic , ETCA , SAGAR

Inflexion in Sino-Indian Relations: Case for Strategic Pragmatism

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

The new China has shown itself as muscular, aggressive, expansionist and determined to force its way to top of the world stage by vigourously establishing Pax Sinica. China’s in the past three decades has been rapidly growing economically ....

August 21, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , China , QUAD , PLA , BRI , Aksai Chin , COVID-19 , LAC , Ladakh , CBMs , Pangong Tso

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

White Mutiny or a Grey Revolution in Belarus -Only time will Tell

Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

Who wants to give up power anyway? History of the long serving leaders abdicating before the time is ripe has rare entries even if the writing on the wall was rather clear. In last decade it has happened to several North African leaders as a consequ....

August 17, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Europe , Russia , Commentary , Russia , Eurasia , Election Commission , EU , COVID-19 , Belarus , Lukashenko

Myanmar Round Up: July 2020

Dr Cchavi Vasisht, Research Associate, VIF Article

The country reported 353 confirmed COVID-19 cases and six deaths as on 31 July 2020. During the policy briefing on Southeast Asia, the United Nations (UN) positioned Myanmar in the vulnerable category due to a weak health care system and continuing h....

August 10, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Article , India , economy , Myanmar Elections , Arakan army , COVID-19 , Exports , Human Rights , EAOs , China BR

Floods in China: Yet another critical test for Xi Jinping

Dr Teshu Singh Article

Floods in China are an annual phenomenon. This year’s flood comes at the time when China is already battling the COVID-19 which has hit 27 out of 31 provinces of China. Since June, torrential rain in China has broken all records. It is the most dev....

August 07, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Xi Jinping , Disaster , PLA , Li Keqiang , COVID-19 , Three Gorges Dam , Yangtze River , Floods , Black Swan

EU Budget and Special Economic Package to Fight COVID-19

Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

The EU adopted a Euro 1.074 trillion dollar budget for a seven-year budget cycle from 1921-27 last month. This was combined with a Euro 750 billion package to assist the Member States to recover from the impact of COVID-19 on their economies.¹

August 06, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , India , European Parliament , COVID-19 , R & D , EU Budget , Franco-German cooperation , Germany , Green Budget

Has a Cold War Started between U.S. and China?

Amb K P Fabian Article

China-U.S. relations are deteriorating at a rapid pace and some scholars have wondered whether we are witnessing the beginnings of Cold War 2 between the two biggest economies? On 21st July 2020, the U.S. State Department ordered that Chinese C....

August 04, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , China , Article , US , China , Taiwan , Trump , Japan , Globalisation , COVID-19 , UN Security Council , Hong Kong , Cold War , Nixon