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Myanmar Round Up: June 2020
July 13 , 2020 Dr Cchavi Vasisht
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The country reported 299 confirmed COVID-19 cases and six deaths as on 30 June 2020. Despite low numbers of cases, the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed economic and social challenges. The World Bank’s Myan...

Myanmar, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Arakan army , China BRI , COVID-19 , Elections 2020 , India Engagements , Investments. , Tatmadaw clashes , UNHRC , Violence in Rakhine and Chin

Eastern Ladakh: Studying the ‘Warning Shots’
July 13 , 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF
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The whys and wherefores of the Chinese aggression in Eastern Ladakh, cumulated with the larger peripheral belligerence in South China and East China Seas and the Taiwan Straits in 2020, have been debate...

National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Galwan valley , ISR , Ladakh , PLA , PLA Western Theatre Command , Strategic Rocket Force , Strategic Support Force , Tibet , Xinjian

Professionals with Passion at the Helm: Key to Aatmanirbhar Bharat
July 13 , 2020 Amb Skand Ranjan Tayal
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Comparisons are often made between India and other countries on our slow project implementation, dilatory decision making and labyrinthine regulatory approval processes. Even when these systemic issues...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Aadhar card , AEC , Delhi Metro , Dr. Vikram Sarabhai , ICAR , ISRO , NITI Aayog , professionals , UIDAI

China’s Strategy to Overcome the Virus Stigma is “Belligerence”
July 11 , 2020 Praveen Menon
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On June 15 2020, Col. B Santosh Babu probably didn’t expect to walk up to a Chinese observation post at the vertex of the bend in Galwan River. It was strange because the PLA themselves had dismantled t...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : belligerence , China , Col. Santosh Babu , COVID-19 , Gen. Zhao Zongqi , wolf warriors , Xi Jinping

US Augments Military Bases, Revitalizes Lilly Pads and Pushes for Visiting Forces Agreements in the Pacific Ocean
July 10 , 2020 Dr Vijay Sakhuja
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Earlier this month, on 1st July, 350 paratroopers from the US 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) parachuted onto Guam to test their ability to “execute real-world missions” and demonstrate that...

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Bashi Channel , Guam , Hawaii , Lilly Pads in Pacific Ocean , Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz , Pagan Island , South China Sea , Taiwan Strait , Tinian Island , Visiting Forces Agreement , Wake Island

Where Egypt is Going?
July 10 , 2020 Amb K P Fabian
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Egypt, once the uncontested leader of the Arab world under President Gamal Abdel Nasser (1954-70), remains one of the most important countries in the Arab world and in Africa. Obviously, what happens to...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Arab Spring , Deep State , El Sisi , Muslim Brotherhood , President Morsi , Supreme Council of Armed Forces

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