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2019 Japan-South Korea Tensions: Why the ‘Past’ took Precedence over the ‘Future’?
September 18 , 2019 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
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Since late last year, East Asia has been uneasy with wariness over the growing tensions between South Korea and Japan. Though, historical legacies and war memories of Imperial Japan continue to emerge a...

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : GSOMIA pact , Japan-Korea relations , Japan-Korea-US tangle

Deadlock in Afghanistan
September 18 , 2019 Dr Yatharth Kachiar
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In a dramatic turn of events, the US President announced in a tweet on September 7 that he has called-off the secret meeting with the Taliban leaders at Camp David, and ended the peace talks with the ar...

Afghanistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Afghanistan violence , Taliban intransigence , US-Taliban talks

Visit of Indian Prime Minister to Vladivostok
September 17 , 2019 Major General (Retd.) Ajay Kumar Chaturvedi, AVSM, VSM
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Indian Prime Minister, Sri Narendra Modi, visited Vladivostok in Far East of Russia for two days; 04-05 Sep 2019. The PM had two main agenda points: First, to attend 20th Summit Level talk with the Rus...

Russia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : New vistas of India-Russia cooperation , PM’s Vladivostok agreements

Inner-Party Differences on Hong Kong Issue Pose Problems for Xi Jinping
September 16 , 2019 Jayadeva Ranade
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China’s leadership will have been incensed by the photographs and videos of protestors in Hong Kong carrying American flags and chanting “America please take over Hong Kong” on September 9, in apparent ...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Chinese leadership’s Hong Kong dilemma , Hong Kong protests

Boris Johnson and the Irish Backstop: Obduracy will only Work against the British and Irish Peoples` Interests
September 16 , 2019 Gautam Sen
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Britain is in a political crisis situation. Conservative Party premier, Boris Johnson has threatened to leave the European Union (EU) without a re-negotiated deal on Britain`s withdrawal arrangements wi...

Europe, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Brexit complexities , British parliamentary concerns on Brexit , Irish factor in Brexit

Mongolia’s Buddhist Diplomacy and India’s Union of Religious and Foreign Policy
September 16 , 2019
Article Views: 2967
The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), along with Indian, Japanese, and Mongolian partners, hosted its third Samvad (which, in Hindi, means “dialogue”) conference in Ulaanbaatar over last Frida...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : A New India , Asia , Buddhism , buddhist diplomacy , China , Japan , military , mongolia , Myanmar , religion , Samvad , South Korea , Ulaanbaatar , vifindia

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