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Commentary: China and Philippines Rapprochement: Implications for India
March 6 , 2018 Asha Sundaramurthy
Commentary Views: 6578
With the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Philippines conducting the second Bilateral Consultation Meeting on the South China Sea, there’s been a range of views on what this could mean for regional ...

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Philippines-China , Quad Plus , South China Sea

Commentary: Quad Plus - Time for New Stakeholders
March 5 , 2018 Dr Vijay Sakhuja
Commentary Views: 5110
China’s rapid march westward through the Indo-Pacific region appears to be running into rough weather. Australia, India, Japan and the United States, the members of the ‘Quad’, an ‘association of like-m...

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : China’s assertiveness , Indo-Pacific , Quad Plus

Commentary: Pakistan - Significance of Pashtun Protests
March 5 , 2018 Tilak Devasher, Consultant, VIF
Commentary Views: 7834
Pakistan’s capital Islamabad has seen many dharnas and protests in the last few years. However, perhaps for the first time it was witness to a 10-day sit-in (01-10 February 2018) by about 5000 Pashtuns ...

Energy Security, Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : FATA , Islamabad protests , Pashtun , Pashtun Protests , Pashtun’s extra-judicial killing

Commentary: Strengthening the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between India and Vietnam
March 1 , 2018 Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 5047
Within a short period of less than two months there would have been two high level political leaders from Vietnam visiting India. Last month Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc was in New Delhi as part of t...

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : India-Vietnam strategic ties , President Quang’s visit

Commentary: Mizoram Contends with Refugee Influx from Myanmar
March 1 , 2018 Gautam Sen
Commentary Views: 5337
The Mizoram Government has recently raised an alert on migration of refugees to the state from Myanmar. The State Government was quite complacent on inflow of refugees till early October last year, part...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Buddhist refugees in Mizoram , Mizoram , Myanmar , Myanmarese Buddhist migration , Refugee Influx

Commentary: Bangladesh - The Khaleda Zia Verdict and its Political Implications
March 1 , 2018 Dr Madhumita Srivastava Balaji
Commentary Views: 5621
In a judicial verdict of unprecedented political import, on February 8, 2018, a Special Court in Bangladesh sentenced the former Prime Minister and leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Begum Kh...

Bangladesh, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Bangladesh elections , Khaleda Zia’s jail term , Zia Verdict

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