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Project 2025: Potential Implications for U.S. - India Relations
PK Khup Hangzo, Associate Fellow, VIF

Voters in the U.S. will go to the polls on November 5 to elect their next president. The election was initially meant to be between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump. However, President Biden ended his campaign in July and endorsed Vice-...

October 24, 2024 Download
Tags: India, President Biden, Project 2025, Trump administration, US, US Congress, US elections, International Relations and Diplomacy
Project 2025: What a Trump Administration Portends for India
Amb P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

As the US Presidential race reaches the home stretch, the political rhetoric becomes shriller, accentuating the polarization in American society. Almost every major US media outlet has become an extension of one or the other campaign. Channels...

October 22, 2024 Download
Tags: India, President Biden, Project 2025, Trump administration, US, US Congress, US elections, US, International Relations and Diplomacy
Rare Earth: Has US Lost the Technology Battle Against China?
Brigadier V Mahalingam (Retd)

“A Chinese company bought Magnequench,” “Not only did the jobs go to China, but so did the intellectual property and the technological know-how to make those magnets…. I’m not comfortable with the fact that we now have to buy magnets for our...

February 10, 2021 Download
Tags: China, Mining, Rare Earth Elements, US, WTO Dispute, Technological and Scientific Studies, Economic Studies
U.S –China Trade and Technology De-Coupling : A Brief on Tariffs, IPO’s and Frauds
Aayush Mohanty

Preamble

The Trump administration has engaged in an intense competition with China on trade and technology. Until Donald Trump was elected, the U.S had a massive trade deficit with China, while Chinese tech giants were capturing the...

October 6, 2020 Download
Tags: American Stock Markets, China, Chinese IPO, De-coupling, Donald Trump, US, US China Trade, WTO, International Relations and Diplomacy
Revival of Peace Initiatives in Afghanistan: Implications for India
Col Shubhankar Basu, SM, VSM

Introduction

Seventeen years have passed since the American forces entered Afghanistan in October 2001 and ousted the Taliban. The massive crackdown forced the Al-Qaeda and the Taliban leaders to melt into Pakistan, where they...

January 31, 2019 Download
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Peace Initiatives in Afghanistan, Taliban, US, Neighbourhood Studies
Overview of US-China Relations under the Trump Administration
Dr Teshu Singh

... US-China relations are being shaped by the assertive policies of Xi Jinping ... and the Trump administration’s view that the large trade deficit and security challenges in East Asia require a more proactive policy towards China .... being...

March 6, 2018 Download
Tags: China, East Asia, trade, US, US-China relations, Xi Jinping, International Relations and Diplomacy
Threat of Military Conflict on Korean Peninsula
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF

..... the latent possibilities of a conflict have now moved into the direction of a US-North Korea conflict. The increased pace of nuclear and missile testing under Kim Jong-un’s supremacy has sought to hasten North Korea’s surge of being able to...

February 13, 2018 Download
Tags: Kim Jong-un Regime, Korean Peninsula, North Korea, Songun Policy, US, US-North Korea conflict, International Relations and Diplomacy
North Korea: Unravelling the Hermit Kingdom
Varun Nambiar

North Korea has been the focus of increasing international interest of late. Much of it has been owing to its burgeoning nuclear weapons programme, which has been described by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as having entered a ‘new...

June 1, 2017 Download
Tags: Hermit Kingdom, International Atomic Energy Agency, North Korea, US, International Relations and Diplomacy
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