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How Turkey Succumbed to China on the Uighur issue?
Dr Yatharth Kachiar

“We have kin in every corner in the world. From the Balkans to Central Asia, from Crimea to North Africa. All incidents, which take place in every single region, directly concern us. So claims about China’s pressure on our siblings in the Xinj

October 06, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, China, economy, Turkey, Uighurs, Human Rights, Turkic people, ethnicity
China and the International Human Rights Regime
Hirak Jyoti Das, Senior Research Associate, VIF

Introduction
China’s rise marked by the combination of high economic development, swift modernisation and authoritarian political structure has been highly attractive for other developing states to imbibe and follow course. In reality h

September 25, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, UNHRC, Hong Kong, Tibet, Xinjiang
Chinese involvement in IUU Fishing
Amruta Karambelkar

Within the strategic community a less-spoken issue when it comes to China is its role in global fishing. Threat from China is often discussed in terms of its territorial aggression, military, its state-owned enterprises, its technology, hybrid warfar

September 25, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, North Korea, China, Africa, UNCLOS, conservation, Maritime, Ecology, IUU, SDG, Ecuador, Fisheries, Sustainability, Environment
China’s Role in Eroding Tibetan Identity: Religious and Cultural Issues
Dr Himani Pant

Four years after passing a similar law in Xinjiang, the Chinese government passed the “Regulations on the Establishment of a Model Area for Ethnic Unity and Progress” in Tibet earlier this year. This contentious new law identifies Tibet “an ina

September 24, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, Neighbourhood Studies, China, Tibet, Commentary, Tibet, Communist Party of China, Identity, Religious and cultural identity, People’s Republic of China
Xinjiang: China’s Playground for Repressing Uyghurs
Anurag Sharma, Senior Research Associate, VIF

“Great crimes feed on great silences. And the Uyghur today have fallen into a kind of black hole”.1

- Dilnur Reyhan, President of the European Uyghur Institute

The quote is a part of an

September 24, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, China, Xi Jinping, Uyghur, United States, Xinjiang, Human Rights, Uighur, Han, Kashgar, Urumqi
China’s Expanding role in Afghanistan
Dr Yatharth Kachiar

As the United States plans to confront China in regions such as Indo-Pacific, it ingenuously is paving the way for Beijing’s rising influence at the heart of the Eurasian continent, i.e. Afghanistan. China’s primary aim in Afghanistan is to ensur

September 23, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, Neighbourhood Studies, Afghanistan, China, Article, India, Pakistan, US, China, Afghanistan, Belt and Road, Taliban, Debt Trap, Terroism
Addressing the China Challenge
Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

(This is a modified version of the talk delivered by Mr. Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF at the Panchnad Research Institute recently)
I propose to dwell essentially on three issues namely the nature and gravity of this challenge, it

September 22, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, Pakistan, China, South China Sea, Taiwan, CPEC, PLA, COVID-19, WTO, LAC, Tibet, Galwan valley, CBMs, Pangong Tso, Wang Yi, data theft, Sino-US, Sinkiang
Tactically Speaking…

-A Soldier from the Line of Actual Control*
On 29 August 2020, as we had got ready to move, there was a feeling of expectancy. It had little to do with the devious adversary, the breath-taking heights, the extreme of weather or the

September 17, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies, International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Commentary, Artillery, PLA, Aircraft, LAC, Armour, Defence brick, Engineers, Gurung hill, Rezang La, Spanggur Tso
China’s Militarisation of South China Sea
Amruta Karambelkar

In September 2015 from the lawns of the White House, Xi Jinping announced that China would not militarise the South China Sea. Five years down the line, the picture is a complete contrast. As on today, China has effectively completed militarising th

September 15, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Commentary, US, China, South China Sea, Missiles, military, Navy, SCS
Distrust More, Verify More: India-China Relations Post Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
Amb Kanwal Sibal

China, through his reckless aggression in Ladakh has seriously jeopardised peace and tranquility on the India-Tibet border. China is already in occupation of large parts of Indian territory in Ladakh. To seek to consolidate its hold on this occupied

September 13, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, SCO, LAC, Depsang, Galwan, CBMs, Pangong Tso, Foreign Ministers, Spanggur Gap
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