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The Chennai Connect in Sino Indian Relations: Assessing the Second India-China informal Summit at Mamallapuram, 11-12 October 2019
October 14 , 2019 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
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The optics of the second Sino-Indian informal summit held at the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) World Heritage site Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu was great. Chinese President...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : India China Relations , Mamallapuram , Modi Xi summit , Sino-India informal summit

Will DaMo help NaMo and Xi at Mahabalipuram?
October 11 , 2019 S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF
Article Views: 2549
It is strategic civilisational diplomacy at its symbolic best. Narendra Modi found that his second informal summit with Xi Jinping at Mahabalipuram in 2019 had been fixed 1,500 years ago by a prince of ...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : India China Relations , Modi Xi summit , Narendra Modi , Xi Jinping

Chinese Investments in Nepal in the Context of BRI
October 11 , 2019 Prof Hari Bansh Jha
Article Views: 13449
All countries, big or small, promote investment as it plays a crucial role in capital formation and in increasing production, generating employment opportunities and boosting exports. Foreign investment is required when the domestic investment proves inadequate in meeting the requirements. In Nepal, a number of policies have been formulated to attract foreign investment.

Nepal, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : BRI in Nepal , Nepal’s China policy , Nepal’s economic concerns

Indic Statecraft and Indo-Pacific
October 11 , 2019 Dr Vijay Sakhuja
Article Views: 63588
India’s cartographic delimitation of Indo-Pacific broadly encompasses sea space from the western Pacific Ocean through Southeast Asia to the western Indian Ocean along the east coast of Africa. In this ...

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : India foreign policy , Indian concept of Mandala , Indo-Pacific , Mandala principles on foreign policy

पाकिस्तान: आतंकवादी हिंसा की पुनरावृत्ति
October 11 , 2019 Tilak Devasher, Consultant, VIF
Article Views: 2594
आतंकवादी और अलगाववादी धीरे-धीरे एक बार फिर पाकिस्तान में सिर उठा रहे हैं। जर्ब-ए-अज्ब और रद्द-उल-फसद जैसे अनेक अभियानों के बाद सेना ने दावा किया था कि स्थिति नियंत्रण में आ चुकी है। लेकिन हाल की घटनाएं ...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Hindi , अफगानिस्तान , अलगाववादी , आतंकवाद की समस्या , आतंकवादी , पाकिस्तान , बलूचिस्तान

Building Indigenous Missile Capability - An Imperative
October 10 , 2019 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Article Views: 5428
When the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP) was sanctioned way back in 1982-83, Agni Missile was not even a part of the four missile Projects in its development agenda which include...

Technological and Scientific Studies

Tags : Building indigenous missile capability , Inescapability of different types of missiles , Range of air threats

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