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Netanyahu’s Annexation Plan
July 1 , 2020 Amb K P Fabian
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Prime Minister Netanyahu tried to move heaven and earth, including Washington, to get the approval of the Knesset for annexing a part of the West Bank—details are yet to be revealed—by 1st July. He has ...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Annexation plan. UN Partition Plan , EU MPs , Jared Kushner , Netanyahu , Oslo Accords , Trump

Lebanon Protests amidst Covid-19 Crisis
July 1 , 2020 Dr Hirak Jyoti Das
Article Views: 4702
Political Blocs in Lebanon March 8 Alliance: Development and Resistance Bloc Free Patriotic Movement Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc (includes Hezbollah) Nasserite Popular Movement Popular Bloc Syr...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Clientalism , Confessional system , Corruption , Covid-19 Crisis , Lebanon Protests , sectarianism

Chinese Activity in Central Asia; beyond Trade, Transport and Economy
June 30 , 2020 Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Associate Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 7465
Background China has invested in energy, infrastructure, transportation, railways and roads, communications etc. in Central Asia. Recently, Chinese Huawei has signed around one billion deal with Uzbekis...

Central Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Badakhshan , BRI , China , COVID-19 , Debt repayment , Gas pipeline , Grants , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyz Republic , Loans , military base , Military Exercises , SCO , Security , Tajikistan , Uzbekistan

Revisiting Korean War in its 70th Anniversary
June 30 , 2020 Prof Rajaram Panda
Article Views: 5701
June 25, 2020 marked the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. It was on this day when Communist North Korea invaded the US-backed South triggering a three-year long war that killed millio...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : 60 Para Field Ambulance , 70th Anniversary , Ceasefire , Communist , Demilitarised zone , Kim Jong-un , Korean War , Moon Jae-in , Panmunjom , Prisoners of war , Syngman Rhee , UN

Et Tu Caesar – Unending Plight of Syria!
June 29 , 2020 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 5070
“Et tu Brutus” has been synonymous with perfidy. But on June 17 when the USA invoked its “Caesar Act” against Syria and its embattled President Assad, pursuant to the geo-political games, Assad would ha...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Assad , Caesar Act , China BRI , Hezoballah , ISIS , refugees , Russia , Turkey , US Sanctions

Nepalese Budget for 2020-21: More Figures than Solutions
June 29 , 2020 Prof Hari Bansh Jha
Article Views: 4681
On May 28, 2020, Finance Minister, Yubaraj Khatiwada, presented Federal Budget of Rs. 1,474 billion for the FY 2020-21 at a time when the entire nation is engulfed by coronavirus pandemic. In such an un...

Nepal, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Agriculture sector , China , COVID-19 , Health sector , Infrastructure Development , Land Banks , Madhes region , migrant workers , Nepal Budget

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