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Taiwan Needs World’s Support to Defend its Sovereignty

July 12, 2021 Prof Rajaram Panda Article

Like the South China Sea, the Taiwan Straits is another flashpoint in the Indo-Pacific region. Both have the China factor where it is flexing its military muscle. While in the South China Sea, it is in conflict with some other Asian countries which m....

International Relations and Diplomacy , China

Tags : Article , South China Sea , BRI , Joe Biden , Mao Zedong , Taiwan Straits , THAAD , Peter Dutton , flashpoint , ‘One-China Policy’ , Chang Kai-shek , TAEPIE Act , A2/AD capabilities , Pacific Command , Aegis Ashore.

कॉर्नवाल से सप्रेम¹

July 09, 2021 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

प्रिय गैर-समूह7 नागरिकों आपने 12-13 जून 2021 को कॉर्नवाल में समूह-7 लोकतांत्रिक देशों के खुशहाल पर....

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Hindi , Article , चीन , BRI , जलवायु परिवर्तन , कॉर्पोरेट कर , साइबर हमले , G7 शिखर सम्मेलन , रूस , टीके

The Divergences in the Gulf Have Their Own Dynamic

July 08, 2021 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

West Asia has an unusual knack of keeping the watchers and analysts on feet most of the times. On the one hand ongoing conflicts and hotspots in Yemen, Libya, Syria and Iraq keep one frustrated. And on the other simmering cinders of the Arab Spring k....

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Article , Israel , US , Iran , JCPOA , Qatar , Saudi Arabia , OPEC , UAE , MBS

Japan’s Four-day Workweek Proposal Unlikely to Work

July 07, 2021 Prof Rajaram Panda Article

Japan and Japanese are known for their famously workaholic corporate culture. There are cases in which companies have forced employees to put extra hours, thereby driving some to commit suicide and giving rise to the word karoshi or “death from ove....

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Article , Coronavirus , Abe Shinzo , Yoshihide Suga , karoshi , four-day workweek , Womenomics , OECD , top-down system , corporate culture , Microsoft

‘Great Rejuvenation’ of the Chinese Nation to Continue: Xi’s Message at the CCP Centenary Celebrations

July 06, 2021 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

The Chinese Communist Party celebrated its 100th birth anniversary. CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered a much anticipated speech on the occasion. Being a centenary speech, it had obvious political significance. It sums up the state of affair....

International Relations and Diplomacy , China

Tags : Commentary , Xi , CCP , PLA , Party Congress , Centenary , China rejuvenation

Origin and Growth of Sino Pak Nexus against India: Suggested Tenets of Indian Response

July 06, 2021 Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.) Article

An Assertive and Proactive India The Surgical Strike in Uri Sector (20161, Doklam standoff (2017)2 and air strike in Balakot3 have portrayed an assertive and proactive Indian response to the Chinese and Paki....

International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , China , Pakistan

Tags : Article , Belt and Road Initiative , Aksai Chin , Sino Pakistan Nexus

टोक्यो ओलम्पिक के निरस्तीकरण का मामला

July 06, 2021 Prof Rajaram Panda Article

इस लेख के लिखे जाने के समय (9 जून 2021), टोक्यो में ओलम्पिक खेलों के आयोजन की बात हो रही थी पर असाधारण व....

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Hindi , Article , कोरोना वायरस। महामारी। टोक्यो ओलम्पिक्स। योशिहिदे सुगा। सेकौ हाशिमोतो। सुपर स्प्रेडर। कोसुके ताकाहाशी। तारो कोनो। थॉमस बाख। सर कीथ मिल्स।

The Raisi Presidency in Iran and its Implications

July 05, 2021 Kingshuk Chatterjee Article

It is much too early to make out straight away what the well-predicted election of Ebrahim Raisi, the incumbent Chief of Iranian Judiciary, to the Presidency of Islamic Republic of Iran is likely to bode for Iran and the world. Since his election to....

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Article , JCPOA , USA , New Delhi , IRGC , Ebrahim Raisi , Khamenei , resistance economy

Role of India and Japan in the Myanmar Crisis

July 02, 2021 Akash Sahu Commentary

The ousted leaders from National League for Democracy (NLD) party in Myanmar have formed a shadow ‘National Unity Government’ (NUG) to challenge the military or the ‘Tatmadaw’ which came to power through a coup in Feb, 2021. Many analysts pre....

International Relations and Diplomacy , Myanmar

Tags : Commentary , India , China , Indo-Pacific , Myanmar , QUAD , Japan , Security , Negotiations