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Linking the Events from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Strait of Hormuz
July 30 , 2019 Hirak Jyoti Das, Associate Fellow, VIF
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On 4 July 2019, the United Kingdom’s Royal Marines seized an Iranian oil tanker, Grace I in the Strait of Gibraltar on the charges that Iran was breaching the European Union’s (EU) sanctions by supplyin...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Oil tanker movement in Gulf , shipping in Strait of Hormuz , UK-Iran ship seizing

2019 Hong Kong Protests: A Series of Contending Perspectives
July 30 , 2019 Anjali Gupta Anurag Sharma, Senior Research Associate, VIF Saumya Joshi
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The 2019 Hong Kong (HK)’ protests were one of the biggest street protests in the last three decades. The protests were against the Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019, also known as Extradition Bill

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Hong Kong extradition bill , Hong Kong protests , Hong Kong’s democracy

भारत-भूटान संबंधों के बदलते आयाम
July 30 , 2019 Alakh Ranjan
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भूटान महत्वपूर्ण पड़ोसी है और भारत के नए विदेश मंत्री एस जयशंकर ने पहले द्विपक्षीय दौरे पर दो दिन (7-8 जून) की यात्रा के लिए भूटान को ही चुना। इस यात्रा से दोनों देशों के बीच नियमित यात्राओं तथा सर्वोच्...

Bhutan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Hindi , चीन की भूटान में बढ़ती पैठ , भारत-भूटान सहयोग , विदेश मंत्री भूटान यात्रा

Recurring Clashes on Tajik-Kyrgyz Border over Raising of National Flags
July 29 , 2019 Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Associate Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 5161
On 22 July 2019, the border authorities of Tajikistan informed that a skirmish took place on the border with Kyrgyzstan which resulted in killing of one local resident and several others wounded. Accord...

Central Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : border disputes in Central Asia , Border tension in Fergana Valley , Tajik-Kyrgyz spat

No Change in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Assertive Policies Despite Pressure
July 29 , 2019 Jayadeva Ranade
Commentary Views: 2679
Since more than the past 18 months Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have been under increasing pressure because of the US-China Tariff war. Washington has also been try...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : China’s aggressive posturing , China’s assertive policies

How Nepal is Negotiating its Federalist Contract between the Citizen and the State
July 26 , 2019 Mayuri Mukherjee
Article Views: 3129
After weeks of large-scale protests, in the last week of June the federal government of Nepal withdrew a controversial bill that would have allowed it greater control of the country’s numerous temple tr...

Nepal, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Devolution of Nepal state powers , Federalism in Nepal , Nepal constitution

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