Articles

The Global South and the Summit of the Future

Amb Asoke Mukerji, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) is scheduled to convene for a “Summit of the Future” in New York on 22-23 September 2024. The outcome of this meeting of world leaders will be the adoption of a “Pact for the Future”. During the past....

August 20, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , World Health Organization , Covid , UN Security Council , UNGA

Global Developments and Analysis: Weekly Monitor (18-24 December 2023)

Economic

US Aims Tougher Sanctions at Banks in New Bid to Hurt Putin

The US targeted banks that facilitate payments for Russia’s military-industrial complex, the latest in a series of restrictions that have tried — and so ....

December 26, 2023 China , Covid , Covid-19 International Daily Scan , Yuan , Red Sea , US-UK Trade Deal , US Secondary Sanctions , EU Diamond Sanctions , Rare Earths Processing , US Steel , Arctic LNG 2 , Japan Patriot Missile Transfer

Neighborhood News Digest – 15 May 2023

Afghanistan

Taliban urges Qatar to invest in Afghanistan – The Print

Taliban’s spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said that officials of the Afghan interim government in their meeting with the Qatari delegation who visited Kand....

May 15, 2023 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Pakistan , China , Nepal , Afghanistan , Foreign Minister , Bhutan , Bangladesh , LoC , Imran Khan , Covid , Baluchistan , Jaishankar , BNP , Sri Lanka-India , IMF bailout , Taliban-Qatar , Sections , China border , Pokhara Airport , Bhutan Refugee Scam , Ex-Deputy PM , Nepal protests , Pakistan protests , Pak Military , Sri Lanka-Australia

Neighbourhood News digest – 27 April 2023

Afghanistan

UN agency: Afghanistan needs $4.62 billion in aid for 2023 - Yahoo

Afghanistan needs $4.62 billion in humanitarian aid from the international community this year for nearly 24 million people in need, the U.N.'s humanit....

April 27, 2023 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Pakistan , China , Nepal , economy , Indo-Pacific , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Bhutan , Saudi Arabia , Tourism , Covid , IMF , UN , Exports , UAE , Gen Bajwa , Prachanda , border issue , Commonwealth , India-Myanmar , Bangladesh-India , RSP , Bangladesh-Japan , Rupee , NRI , Japan-Myanmar , Children , Pakistan Chief

Neighborhood News Digest – 19 April 2023

Afghanistan

‘Regular assistance’ for Afghanistan ‘on hold’, says ADB – The Hindu

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) continues to “monitor” the situation in Afghanistan as it “maintains a hold” on the finances for....

April 19, 2023 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , India , Pakistan , China , economy , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Bhutan , Nawaz Sharif , elections , Qatar , Taliban , Tourism , Migrants , Covid , Easter attacks , Himalayas , UN , Gwadar port , ICJ , Extremism , ADB , Rohingyas , India-Myanmar , China-Myanmar , Bangladesh-Russia , Punjab polls

India Impacted by the Great Geopolitical Churn

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

Any attempt towards predicting the emerging world order is more likely to be incorrect. The geopolitical churn is so immense and future so fundamentally incomprehensible that it will be well served to desist from dire prognostications. The era is cau....

March 15, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , India , US , China , Russia , economy , sanctions , Ukraine , Oil , G20 , Covid , defence budgets

China in the Cyber Domain, Major General PK Mallick, VSM, Prints Publications Pvt Ltd. 2022. ISBN:978-93-936740-4-3

Colonel Rajiv Kumar Srivastava

Millions of smartphones or computers and their hardware all over the world with made-in-China tags provide a sense that the Dragon country is perhaps one of the most advanced IT-enabled countries. PLA soldiers are safe behind their high-tech Digital ....

January 19, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , PLA , Book Reviews , Covid , cyber firewall , Chinese Cyber , cyber domain

China: Daily Scan, December 29, 2022

Xi Jinping makes important speech at meeting of criticism and self-criticism of Political Bureau: Xinhuanet

December 28, 2022

The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting of critici....

December 29, 2022 artificial intelligence , Covid , Huawei , Tibet , China Daily Digest , Tencent

China: Daily Scan, December 23, 2022

China's newest commodity exchange launches industrial silicon futures: Xinhuanet

December 22, 2022

The Guangzhou Futures Exchange (GFEX), the youngest of China's five major futures bourses, launched industrial silicon futures on....

December 23, 2022 India , Japan , Beijing , Covid , Shanghai , China Daily Digest , Xinjiang , Germany , Xizang , S-300C

Chinese President Jiang Zemin’s Demise Reveals Extent of Discontent in China

Jayadeva Ranade Article

Recent events have confirmed the considerable subterranean discontent in China. The death of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who was handpicked by the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping to steer the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the country ....

December 22, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Protests , CCP , Covid , Tiananmen Square , Jiang Zemin