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Pushed to the Brink: The Alarming Toll of Climate Change on Our Oceans
May 9 , 2025 PK Khup Hangzo, Associate Fellow, VIF
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Coral reefs, often referred to as the “rainforests of the sea,” are among the most biodiverse and crucial ecosystems on Earth. They sustain around 830,000 species[1] - over 33% of all known marine lif...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Climate Change

Tags : Climate Change , Fourth global coral bleaching event , Marine heatwaves , Marine litter , Ocean warming

Opposite ends of the Pendulum: Syama Prasad Mukherjee and Nehru on Pakistan and China
May 7 , 2025 Raghvendra Singh, Senior Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 56
It was axiomatic that different ideologies would exist in different parts of the world. The whole world obviously could never be built on one pattern. Syama Babu believed that trouble arose only when id...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : China , India , McMahon Line , Nehru Liaquat Pact , Pakistan , plebiscite , Syama Babu , Tibet , UNO

A Strategy of Protracted Warfare
May 5 , 2025 Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 140
Protracted War, as a terminology, theorizes of a military strategy, penned by Mao Zedong, in On Protracted War (1938), emphasizing long-term struggle and attrition, drawing the enemy into favourable ter...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Terrorism, Jammu & Kashmir

Tags : Anti Indianism , Gen Asim Munir , Pahalgam terror attack , Pakistan Army , Protracted war

Dragon at the Doorstep: China's Grip on Cambodia and the Rising Storm in Southeast Asia
May 5 , 2025 Dr Gautam Kumar Jha
Article Views: 92
Two countries among the ASEAN nations—Laos and Cambodia—are increasingly functioning as scribes for China in return for the generous financial patronage extended by Beijing to their current regimes. Amo...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : ASEAN unity and neutrality , Cambodia China relations , Cambodia sovereignty , China Indo-Pacific strategy. Maritime militarization , Khmer Empire , Paris Peace Accords 1991 , Ream Naval Base , RNB

Kabul to Pahalgam: A Journey of Pain and Loss
May 2 , 2025 Bilquees Daud
Commentary Views: 112
Kashmir, often dubbed as "heaven on earth," is soaked in blood as terrorists killed 26 innocent tourists in Pahalgam. Hearing this news, devastated me. I can innately relate to the families who were su...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Pakistan, Jammu & Kashmir, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Afghanistan , India , Kashmir , Pakistan , religion , War

Strategic Shifts and the Panama Ports Deal
May 1 , 2025 Esha Banerji, Research Assistant, VIF
Article Views: 162
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

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