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Strategic Shifts and the Panama Ports Deal
May 1 , 2025 Esha Banerji, Research Assistant, VIF
Article Views: 716
Introduction
For the past few weeks, all eyes have been on a multibillion-dollar deal that was supposed to be signed early this month and would lead to the transfer of control of approximately 43 ports across 23 countries. However, it has instead found itself in the middle of a heightening geopolitical crisis between the US and China.

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : China , Hutchison , Panama , Trump

Indus Waters Treaty Was A Bad Deal For India, Happy It Is In Abeyance Now
May 1 , 2025 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF
Views: 612
India has more or less walked out of the 65 year old Indus Waters Treaty following the horrific terrorist attack in Pahalgam last week. So far it has kept the implementation of the treaty in abeyance 'w...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : India , Indus , Indus water streaty , Kashmir , Pahalgam , Pahalgam Attack , Pahalgam terror attack , Pakistan

India’s New War Doctrine: Responding to Terror with Remote Warfare
April 30 , 2025 Dr Dalbir Ahlawat
Commentary Views: 702
On 22 April 2025, the brutal terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, carried out by two Pakistani and one Indian national, once again tested India’s patience. It was not just an attack on innocent touris...

National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Drones , Indus Water Treaty , Pahalgam , Pakistan , remote warfare

Coming of Age - ‘Instruments of Air Denial’
April 30 , 2025 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Article Views: 625
On the night of 23/24 Feb 2022 when the Russians fired the first salvo of the current round in Russo-Ukraine war in the form of a strong pre-emptive air strike complete with strike aircrafts, cruise mis...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Russia, Defence, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Air defence , Drones , GBAD , Swarms

West Asian Leaders and Organisations Condemn Terrorist Attack in Pahalgam, Jammu & Kashmir
April 29 , 2025 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Dr Farah Shahin
Article Views: 736
Adversity often becomes a litmus test for friends. It is also not untrue of diplomacy. For decades, India’s relationship with most West Asian countries has been transactional and only recently due to st...

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Iran , Israel , Pahalgam , Saudi Arabia , Terror attack , Turkey , West Asia

President Smt. Draupadi Murmu Cements Ties with Portugal and Slovakia
April 29 , 2025 Rup Narayan Das
Commentary Views: 600
It is instructive to note how India is engaging high dignitaries like President of India in enhancing its global profile abroad. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi steers the ship of India’s diplomacy i...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Draupadi Mrmu , India , Jaishanakar , Maldives , Mauritius , modi , Om Birla , Portugal , Slovakia

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