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China’s Incursions, Covid and Military Coercion
Lt Gen Vinod Bhatia, PVSM, AVSM, SM (Retd) Article

The Incursions
The Galwan valley intrusion by China since early May is indicative of China’s strategic signaling to India, and cannot be seen as just one of the near 350 transgressions that occur every year. Reportedly, the PLA has buil....

May 27, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , PLA , BRI , COVID-19 , LAC , Ladakh , Intrusions , transgressions , military coercion , Galwan valley , border infrastructure
China Study Group Report: Domestic Politics and Economy in China during COVID-19
Dr Teshu Singh Article

The Vivekananda international Foundation held a discussion on the developments in China amid the COVID-19 on 4 May 2020. The discussion focused on the Chinese President Xi Jinping and China's Domestic Politics and China's experience in the resumption....

May 26, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , South China Sea , NPC , Chinese economy , Xi Jinping , Taiwan , Wuhan , India-China relations , COVID-19 , Moderately Prosperous Society
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 25, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Economic
Xi stresses analysing China's economy from comprehensive, dialectical, long-term perspective- CPPCC 2020
Xi called for consolidating the fundamental role of agriculture, ensuring stability on the six fronts and security....

May 25, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , CPEC , COVID-19 , COVID-19 Daily Scan , Daily scan , Covid Surcharge , Corporate bailouts , Macau , Akademik Lomonosov , Digital tax , Savings , Arctic , Xi state visit , Iran-Venezuela , Cyclone Amphan
What happened at World Health Assembly?
Amb K P Fabian Commentary

There is considerable confusion as to what happened in the diplomatic bridge game between rising China and declining US, declining at an accelerated pace under President Trump, who holding trumps got trumped badly by President Xi Jinping who finessed....

May 25, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , US , China , Xi Jinping , COVID-19 , World Health Assembly
Can SAARC be made Effective?
Dr Sreeradha Datta Article

The world at large including South Asia is already facing the devastating effects of Covid-19. This region already burdened with its teeming populations, uneven layers of growth and governance issues, all of which has got exacerbated with this crisis....

May 25, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Article , India , SAARC , COVID-19 , Public health sector
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 22, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Strategic
Two Sessions 2020: China increases defence spending by 6.6 per cent but sets no GDP target, focuses on Hong Kong national security law
Beijing has announced an increase of 6.6 per cent in its military spending, but d....

May 22, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , COVID-19 , COVID-19 Daily Scan , Daily scan , Face masks , National People’s Congress , Locusts , Remedesvir , Hong Kong , Open Skies Treaty , Economic Prosperity Network , Olympics , Euro
IS Pakistan Losing the COVID-19 Battle?
Tilak Devasher, Consultant, VIF Article

While the entire world is grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, Pakistan’s handling of the crisis raises fears that if it does not get its act together quickly, it may be at risk of losing the battle. The numbers of positive cases as of 20 Ma....

May 22, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Article , Pakistan , Balochistan , COVID-19 , lockdown , Sindh , lack of testing , polarisation
Pakistan Study Group Report: April 2020
Dr Yatharth Kachiar Article

A meeting of the Pakistan Study Group was held via video conferencing on 29 April 2020. The main items on the agenda were the COVID-19 situation in Pakistan and China-Pakistan relations.

COVID-19 Situation in Pakistan
Impact on C....

May 21, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Article , India , Pakistan , China , economy , Civil-Military , COVID-19 , IMF , Federalism
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 21, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Economic
Coronavirus stimulus inflation risk depends on politics, not economics
What shifts a society from being in the column of present-day Japan or the U.S. to being in the column with Argentina of the 1980s or Weimar Germa....

May 21, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Afghanistan , CPEC , COVID-19 , COVID-19 Daily Scan , Daily scan , Green Deal , Inflation , Stimulus , migrant workers , SEC , Satellite Network , Sikkim
VIF Presentation cum discussions on West Asia

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised two sets of interactive discussions on the impact of COVID-19 in West Asia and its implications on India. On 7 May 2020, Amb. D P Srivastava Distinguished Fellow, VIF spoke on the topic, “Ge....

May 18, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Interaction , COVID-19 , West Asian region , UAE , Gulf , Gulf Cooperation Council , Strategic cooperation
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