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Continuing Tragedy in Gaza
March 13 , 2024 Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
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President Biden’s statement last week that there would be a Hamas-Israel deal by Monday, 4th March had raised hopes for a breakthrough in the talks being hosted in Cairo for hostage release and a pause ...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Biden , Gaza , Hamas , Hezbollah , hostages , ICJ , Israel , Netanyahu , UNGA

Chilling Geostrategic Environment: An era of ‘Authoritarian Conflict Management’
March 12 , 2024 Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF
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Are we getting close to a global confrontation or are these fears grossly exaggerated? Lately, the French President had spoken of sending ground troops to Ukraine, there are reports of 12 CIA bases in U...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Gaza , Hamas , Israel , Myanmar , NATO , Nuclear , Russia , Sahel region , Ukraine , War

Hezbollah in the North
March 12 , 2024 Dr Hirak Jyoti Das
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Israel currently in midst of ground operation in Gaza Strip is simultaneously engaged in limited war across the Blue Line on its northern frontier with Hezbollah. The near daily exchange of fire that be...

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : 7 October attack , Hamas , Hezbollah , Indian Diaspora , Iran , Israel Defense Forces (IDF) , US

Where India-US Relations Stand in 2024?
March 11 , 2024 Dr Sweta Kumari
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In his recent visit to New Delhi, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources and former Ambassador of the United States to India, Richard R. Verma presented a “long-view” of the India-US rel...

US, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : 2023 , Challenges , Defence , iCET , India-US , INDUS-X , Khalistan issue , Regulations , Trade Initiatives

Pakistan’s Political Pantomime
March 9 , 2024 Sanjiv Khanna
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The Pakistan Conundrum
Pakistan never fails to baffle the policy makers and analysts across the world. The exasperation is effectively expressed in words of Late US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. In Dec 2012, she stated

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : farcical elections of 2024 , Imran Khan’s politics , military in Pakistan politics , Pakistan’s constitutional imbroglio , Post-partition Pakistan

Xi Jinping Reinforces Security Apparatus Amidst Growing Popular Discontent
March 7 , 2024 Jayadeva Ranade
Article Views: 1972
The slowing economy and increasing joblessness have contributed to the growing popular discontent in China. This has affected China’s entrepreneurs and there are indications that discontent has spread also to the ‘princelings’ and cadres in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : armed police department , CCP , Cultural Revolution , discontent in China , Ministry of State Security , PLA , Political Bureau , Xi Jinping

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