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Scarborough Shoal

Global Developments and Analysis: Weekly Monitor (25 September- 01 October 2023)

Economic

Most Russian oil exports bypassing price cap – FT

The EU and G7 countries have largely failed to enforce a $60 per barrel price cap on Russian seaborne oil exports, Financial Times reported on 25 Sept, citing an ana....

October 09, 2023 Covid-19 International Daily Scan , Scarborough Shoal , Niger , Oil Price Cap , A Global Community of Shared Future , Iran Drones , EU-China Trade Dialogue , Micro plastics , US-UK Trade Deal , US Government Shutdown , Muizzu , Malaria Vaccine

China’s Military Space Strategy

Pushpinder Bath Article

General

While the visible elements of China’s space programme include its launch vehicles, launch sites, satellite systems and Anti-Satellite (ASAT) tests, its military space strategy has never been enunciated through any official docume....

June 15, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Senkaku Islands , Anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons , Scarborough Shoal , Gaofen , Informatized warfare , Intelligentized warfare , Integrated Network Electronic Warfare (INEW) , Haiyang , Anti-Access Area Denial (A2AD) , Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) , Co-Orbital Satellites , Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs)

India-China Line of Actual Control: Increasingly Fuzzier…

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

Though comparisons are odious, Line of Control (LOC) and Line of Actual Control (LAC) are chalk and cheese! The Karachi Agreement of 1949 delineated the Ceasefire Line (CFL), following directional paths in the absence of clear landmarks, by demarcati....

January 29, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , LoC , Aksai Chin , LAC , Pangong Tso , salami slicing , Simla Convention , Scarborough Shoal