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Managing the LAC: Rules are Handrails, and Not Handcuffs!
June 27 , 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF
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The Dragon is awake, and is vigourously seeking to establish Pax Sinica! Of the two milestones of the 100th anniversaries of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the establishment of th...

National Security and Strategic Studies, China, Border and Coastal Security, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Agreement for Maintenance peace & Stability , Border Maintenance Posture , CBMs , Galwan , LAC , Ladakh , Pangong Tso , PLA , ROE

US’ Priority: Pacific, within the Indo-Pacific
June 26 , 2020 Dr Vijay Sakhuja
Article Views: 5749
The ongoing operational maneuvers by the US military in the Pacific Ocean, establishment of the Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI) in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, and a ...

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Ladakh. , Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI); National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021;Taiwan Defence Act; US Indo-Pacific Strategy; Guam Homeland Defense System-Guam (HDS-G); DF-21D and DF-26; US’ Indo-Pacific strategy; Quadrilateral Security Dial

How Sport Mirrors the India- Pakistan Relationship
June 26 , 2020 Amb Jitendra Nath Misra
Article Views: 7078
Sport is complex. As well as being skill, it is also diplomacy. Skills matter, but it is “grievance sport,” when players seek to avenge history, that counts. For example, India and Pakistan are unable t...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : hockey matches , India , Pakistan , pantomime warriors

क्या कोविड-19 से जंग हार रहा है पाकिस्तान?
June 25 , 2020 Tilak Devasher, Consultant, VIF
Article Views: 4560
पूरी दुनिया कोविड-19 महामारी से जूझ रही है मगर पाकिस्तान का इस संकट से निपटने का तरीका देखकर डर लग रहा है कि अगर वह जल्द नहीं संभला तो यह जंग हारने का जोखिम खड़ा हो जाएगा।

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : COVID-19 , Hindi , तालाबंदी , ध्रुवीकरण , परीक्षण की कमी , पाकिस्तान , बलूचिस्तान , सिंध

The Future of China-Japan Relations
June 25 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 7543
The China-Japan Bilateral Relationship has had an enduring impact on international relations. Usually territorial disputes, conflicting political interactions, anticipated military conflicts are all ass...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Abe-Xi Summit , Banking , Pinghu Oil and Gas Field , Senkaku Islands , Southwestern Wall Defense , Supply chains , United States

Refugees, not Settlements, are the Bigger Impediment to Israeli-Palestinian Peace
June 24 , 2020 Mayuri Mukherjee
Article Views: 6294
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent comments that his new government, with support from the Trump Administration in the US will annex parts of the West Bank have, as expected, caused quit...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : first war of independence , Israel , Naqba day , Palestine , refugee crisis , UNRWA

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