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Interaction with Chinese Think Tank Scholars

A three member delegation from the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, Beijing led by Dr Li Li, Associate Research Fellow at CICIR visited the VIF on 30th May 2014 and interacted with the VIF faculty. The other members of the del....

June 02, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Interaction , South Asia , India’s foreign policy , 2014 Elections
BCIM Economic Corridor: Prospects and Issues
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

Introduction One of the cornerstones of India’s strategy has been to develop India economically and technologically. Another facet of India’s policy has been to seek partnerships on the strategic, economic and technological fronts to wi....

June 02, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Time for Intense India-Japan-Vietnam Strategic Partnership
Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty

Introduction The 24th ASEAN Summit was held for the first time in Naypyitaw, the capital of Myanmar. At the commencement of the summit on May 10, there were serious concerns raised by Vietnam on the recent drilling of an oil rig ....

May 27, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Kunming Stabbing Incident: China under the Shadow of Islamic Radicalism
Radhakrishna Rao

Slowly and surely, the middle kingdom seems to be emerging as a preferred “soft target” of terrorist violence spearheaded by a radical outfit with its alleged links to the notorious Al Qaeda. For the communist China, which not long back was least....

April 25, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
PLA’s Information Warfare Capabilities on an Upward Trajectory
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

In end February this year, Chinese President Xi Jinping formed a new working group at the apex level on cyber security and information security. While this was seen as the political leadership’s renewed efforts in underlining the threats and challe....

April 21, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Avoiding the Fall; Michael Pettis; Carnegie Endowment 2013; PP 157; Price Rs 1238 & The Great Rebalancing; Michael Pettis; Princeton University Press 2013; PP 219; Price Rs 1859
Amb Prabhat P Shukla

It makes sense to review the two books together and not just because they are written by the same author, and within a short period of each other [both were written in 2013]. The more compelling reason for doing so is that they deal with the same phe....

April 07, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Chinese economy , GDP growth , Book Reviews , Global Economy
China’s Rising Defence Expenditure and Implications for India
Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

While India’s interim defence budget for the financial year (FY) 2014-15 has remained stagnant in terms of the Rupee-Dollar exchange rate and inflation, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has been given a 12.2 per cent increase over the ....

April 01, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Modi and India’s Foreign Policy: A Preview
Amb Kanwal Sibal

Little interest has been shown domestically about possible new orientations in foreign policy under a Narendra Modi-led NDA government. Modi’s single-minded focus on the development agenda has dominated political and media discourse, barring, of co....

March 28, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Ukraine Crisis: The Chinese Stand and Lessons for India
Monish Gulati

Introduction As the conflict in Ukraine refuses to abate, it continues to raise fears of triggering yet another confrontation between the Cold War era adversaries – the US and Russia - in a geopolitical tussle for dominance in Europe. The....

March 24, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
BIMSTEC and BICM: Two Competing Sub-Regional Frameworks?
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently visited Myanmar to attend the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation summit (BIMSTEC). This sub-regional framework came about in 2004 as part of India’s overall strategy....

March 11, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
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