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Significance of Blinken’s and Austin’s Visits to Seoul and Tokyo
March 22 , 2021 Prof Rajaram Panda
Article Views: 5495
No sooner than the first virtual summit of the four Quad leaders discussed the regional issues and underlined the importance of rules of law and free and open Indo-Pacific, the Joe Biden administration ...

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : 2+2 talks , burden-sharing , China’s new Coast Guard Law , Climate Change , comfort women issue , East and South China Sea , fishing vessels. , Indo-Pacific , institutional mechanism , island-building , Military Exercises , North Korea’s nuclear issue , QUAD , summits , Taiwan Strait , weaponisation

Use of Airpower in ‘No War No Peace’ Scenario
March 22 , 2021 Air Marshal Anil Khosla, PVSM, AVSM, VM (Retd)
Podcast Views: 5237
15 March 2021 A ceasefire along the LOC came into being between India and Pakistan on 25 February coinciding with the second anniversary of airstrike by India at Balakot in response to the suicide bomb...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Air Power , Balakot Airstrike , No War No Peace Scenario , Pulwama Terrorist Attack

A Strategic Shift in the UK’s View of India is Welcome
March 20 , 2021 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
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(This is a modified version of the Director, VIF’s remarks at the VIF-IISS Webinar on “Implications of the UK Integrated Review for India” held on 19 March 2021) The Integrated review and its implicatio...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : India , India-Pacific , Integrated Review

Book Review: “Forgotten Kashmir: The Other Side of the Line of Control” by Dinkar P Srivastava, Harper Collins Publishers Feb 2021, pp. 304, MRP Rs. 699
March 19 , 2021 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF
Article Views: 7059
“Forgotten Kashmir” while touching upon Pakistan’s invasion of Kashmir and the issue of self determination in the context of the people of Kashmir is mainly focussed on Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) ...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Jammu & Kashmir

Tags : Baltistan , Gilgit , Ibrahim Khan , Kashmir , Maharaja , Major Brown , Northern Areas , NWFP , Pakistan , POK , UNCIP resolutions

Jammu and Kashmir: Reaction to the Abrogation of Article 370
March 19 , 2021 Abhinav Pandya
Article Views: 8734
There is no dearth of intellectuals and strategic experts deliberating on the post-370 Kashmir and the emerging trends in militancy. In the intellectual milieu, overwhelmingly dominated by Kashmir-centr...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Jammu & Kashmir

Tags : Article 370 , ISI , Jamaat-I-Islami , Jammu , Kashmir , Pakistan , Roshni scheme , Security Forces

जातीय भाषाओं को मदारिन से बदल रहा चीन
March 19 , 2021 Jayadeva Ranade
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चीनी कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी (सीसीपी) को लगभग विघटित कर देने के अमेरिका और पश्चिमी देशों द्वारा किये जाने वाले प्रयासों के मूल में विशेष कर पूर्व सोवियत संघ तथा कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी ऑफ सोवियत संघ (सीपीएसयू) के व...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

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