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A Tribute to Late Shinzo Abe
July 12 , 2022 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
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“I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason I am ready to give everything for Japan.”
-Shinzo Abe (wrote in 2012) Shinzo Abe would go on to give his all to Japan a decade later. India awoke to horror on 08 July 2022 as news of former PM Abe being shot at twice during a stump speech in Nara hit the headlines.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Abe , India , Japan , JINF , Samvad , VIF

Shinzo Abe: Tragic Departure of a Colossus – Part I
July 11 , 2022 Prof Rajaram Panda
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The morning on 8 July began with the devastating news that the former Prime Minister of Japan Abe Shinzo, a true friend of India with whom the author had a chance to briefly interact at the India Intern...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Abe Shinzo , assassination , conspiracy theories , cult controversy , motivation , nation mourns , nationalist , NATO , religious group , Yamagami

Sri Lankan Leaders: Forcing the Hands of its Citizens
July 11 , 2022 Dr Sreeradha Datta
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Last Saturday morning (9 July 2022) Sri Lanka faced a level of mayhem on the roads of not only Colombo but all of its major cities as that was most unprecedented but not truly unexpected. For a country ...

Sri Lanka, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Debt , economy , Government , IMF , India

Engaging Central Asia
July 8 , 2022 Amb Ashok Sajjanhar
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The five countries of Central Asia viz Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have been largely peaceful and stable since they attained independence on the disintegration of the...

Central Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : China , India , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Russia , Tajikistan , Ukraine , Uzbekistan

गुआंगदोंग में चीनी युद्ध की तैयारी अभ्यास के लीक वीडियो का प्रारंभिक विश्लेषण
July 7 , 2022 Jayadeva Ranade
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14 मई, 2022 को गुआंगदोंग प्रांत कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी समिति द्वारा आयोजित एक 'युद्ध की तैयारी के अभ्यास' के एक वीडियो के 'लीक' का समय दिलचस्प है। यह अभी तक स्पष्ट नहीं है कि यह वीडियो चीनियों द्वारा मनोवैज्...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Hindi , गुआंगदोंग , ड्रोन , दक्षिण चीन सागर , पर्ल रिवर डेल्टा , पीएलए , लामबंदी

Critical Assessment of BRI Projects in Iraq
July 7 , 2022 Dr Hirak Jyoti Das
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), formulated in 2013 consists of two parts: firstly, “Silk Road Economic Belt” (SREB), connecting Central Asia, Iran, Turkey and eventually to Europe and secondly, ...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Iraq; Belt and Road; China; US; Islamic State; Persian Gulf

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