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Project 2025: What a Trump Administration Portends for India

Amb P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

As the US Presidential race reaches the home stretch, the political rhetoric becomes shriller, accentuating the polarization in American society. Almost every major US media outlet has become an extension of one or the other campaign. Channels piously claiming to report only the facts, and the truth are selective with the first and economical with the second. They cover events of their preferred candidate, editing out gaffes in interviews. The other candidate is selectively quoted out of context. Opinion polls are cherrypicked.

October 22, 2024 Issue Brief

US Experts Group Meeting on Prime Minister Modi’s State Visit to the United States: Way Ahead in India-US Partnership

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised a discussion on “Prime Minister Modi’s State Visit to the United States: Way Ahead in India-US Partnership” on 26 June, 2023. Dr. Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF, gave the opening remarks and Amb. Arun Kumar Singh moderated the session. Mr. Nitin A. Gokhale, Lt. Gen. Anil Ahuja (Retd.) and Mr. Sanjay Chadha were the main speakers at the event. Amb. Satish Chandra, Air Marshal G.S. Bedi, Air Marshal Rajesh Kumar, Dr. C. Rajamohan, Dr. Harinder Sekhon, Mr. P.S. Sahoo, Amb. Pankaj Saran, Amb. P.S. Raghavan, Lt. Gen.

July 06, 2023 Event Report

Talk by Amb. Arun Kumar Singh

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised a talk by Amb. Arun Kumar Singh on “An Assessment of the New US-India Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET)” on February 23, 2023. Dr. Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF, chaired the session and made welcome remarks. The event was attended by Dr. Suma Varughese, Director General MED, CoS&CS (MCC) at DRDO, Dr. N. Ranjana, Director, Directorate of Systems and Technology Analysis (DSTA), DRDO, Lt. Gen. Anil Bhatt, ISpA, Air Marshal Surat Singh, Col. Baljinder Singh, USISPF, Dr. C. Raja Mohan, Lt. Gen R.K. Sawhney, Gp. Cap.

June 20, 2023 Event Report

Talk on “Internal Political Dynamics in the US: Implications on India and the World”

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised a talk by Prof K. P. Vijayalakshmi on “Internal Political Dynamics in the US: Implications on India and the World” on 27 January 2023. Dr. Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF chaired the session and made welcome remarks. The talk was followed by a discussion and question and answer session.

January 31, 2023 Event Report

Interaction with the Visiting US delegation

On 14 December a delegation from the US Department of State interacted with VIF scholars VIF representatives, Dr Arvind Gupta (Director), Lt Gen R K Sawhney (Retd),Gp Capt Naval Jagota (Retd),Sweta Kumari(Associate Fellow), Anurag Sharma (Snr Research Associate).

January 16, 2023 Event Report

Destined for war: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? By Graham Allison. New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. 2017. 384pp. ISBN 978-0-544-93527-3

Kartikeya Pandey

“Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world.” said Napoleon more than two hundred years ago and quoted by the author in the very first chapter of the book which talked about the rise of China. The author contends that the growth of China will lead to conflict with the USA, an existing superpower, which may result in war. To back his argument the author draws the example from the Peloponnesian War between two Greek states—Sparta, an established power, and Athens, a rising power.

December 19, 2022 Books/Book Review

Talk on US Midterm Elections

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised a talk on “US midterm Elections 2022: Implications for India and the World” on 21 November, 2022. Dr Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF, chaired the session and made welcome remarks. Prof K. P. Vijayalakshmi delivered the talk followed by a discussion by Mr Ashok Malik. Ambassador Anil Wadhwa and Lt. Gen. R.K. Sawhney were also part of the event.

December 07, 2022 Event Report

Virtual Vimarsh on 'Indo-US Relations' by Amb Arun Singh

To discuss the trends in Indo-US relations and the potential trajectory of the bilateral partnership, the Vivekananda International Foundation organised a virtual Vimarsh on 29 October. The opening remarks were made by the VIF director Dr. Arvind Gupta. A detailed presentation on the theme was made by career diplomat Amb. Arun K Singh who has previously served as the Indian ambassador in the US, France and Israel. He is currently a member of the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) as well as a distinguished fellow at VIF. Trends in Indo-US Relations

November 12, 2021 Event Report

Joint VIF-Heritage Interaction on “Future Trajectory of Indo-US Relations”

The Vivekananda International Foundation and The Heritage Foundation, USA jointly organized a web-based interaction session to deliberate upon the future trajectory of Indo-US relationship in the post-COVID era. The discussion centered around three major themes: (i) US-China Decoupling and its Implications on the Global Economy; (ii) Impact of Covid-19 in further Enhancing the India-US Partnership in all fields; and (iii) US Concept of a Second Marshall Plan. While Dr. Arvind Gupta, Amb. Kanwal Sibal, Amb. Ashok Kantha and Amb. Arun K.

April 20, 2021 Event Report

The US-China Bout: Who’s on the Ropes

Air Vice Marshal (Retd) Rajesh Isser, AVSM,VM (G)

The world is witnessing momentous shifts in geopolitics, and in fact, in every facet of human life. The US-China zero-sum game for dominance may well define pathways nations take to bring prosperity to their people in the next decade. This paper attempts to track current issues of this ‘race’ especially after a change of presidency in the US. In particular, issues in the Indo-Pacific in terms of fast-changing policies of both powers are explored from the Indian perspective.

February 12, 2021 Issue Brief