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The United States of America and the People’s Republic of China are locked in what the Trump administration calls “strategic competition” in trade and technology, China’s diplomatic overtures to change the existing East Asian order, and milit....

December 10, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , China’s naval ambitions , China-US naval concerns , US Naval Build-up

Myanmar Round Up: November 2019

Aakriti Vinayak Article

November saw Myanmar come under coordinated international legal offensive with three cases filed against it in a span of four days, centered around the Rohingya crisis. Internally, the peace process remains stalled and the skirmishes between the Arak....

December 10, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Article , Rohingya issue , Myanmar rebel armies , Myanmar clashes , Myanmar peace

भारत-चीन सम्बन्धों में चेन्नई का जुड़ाव: 11-12 अक्टूबर 2019 को ममल्लपुरम में भारत-चीन के बीच होने वाले दूसरे शिखर सम्मेलन का आकलन

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

तमिलनाडु के मामल्लपुरम् (इसे महाबलिपुरम् के नाम से भी जाना जाता है) में भारत और चीन के बीच दूसरी �....

December 10, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , मामल्लपुरम् शिखर वार्ता , भारत-चीन सम्बन्ध , भारत-चीन द्विपक्षीय समझदारी

West Asia Round-up - November 2019

Hirak Jyoti Das, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

Overview

Efforts are underway to de-escalate tensions between Iran on the one side and the US and Saudi Arabia on the other. Oman’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi had met Secretary Pompeo in Washington and....

December 06, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Iran protests , Iraq demonstrations , Gaza strikes , West Bank settlement

2019 जापान-दक्षिण कोरिया तनाव: ‘भविष्य’ पर क्यों हावी हुआ ‘अतीत’?

Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

पिछले साल से ही दक्षिण कोरिया और जापान के बीच बढ़ते तनाव के कारण पूर्वी एशिया में चिंता व्याप्त ह....

December 06, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , दक्षिण कोरिया-जापान के तनाव , जापान-दक्षिण कोरिया आर्थिक रिश्ते , जीसोमिया मिसाइल रक्षा प्रणाली

Afghanistan: Reopening of peace talks

Dr Yatharth Kachiar Article

President Trump, during his surprise visit to Afghanistan on 28 November, has once again shifted the contour of US foreign policy towards the Taliban by declaring that the US has renewed the peace talks with the armed group. What is unique in this re....

December 04, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Article , Afghanistan peace , US-Taliban engagements , Taliban’s intransigence

अमेरिका-चीन में कारोबारी जंग: चीन में विग्रह

Jayadeva Ranade Article

चीनी कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी (सीसीपी) के नेताओं का मूड उदास-उदास सा है। जैसा कि कहा जाता है कि अमेरिका �....

December 03, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article

Use of Precision Artillery on the Line of Control

Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty Article

Background

Artillery has been a major contributor in all conflicts which the nation has undertaken since independence. It has played important roles in Jammu and Kashmir where there has never been a peaceful moment ever since the I....

December 02, 2019 National Security and Strategic Studies , Border and Coastal Security , Article , Indian artillery , fire power in counter-terrorism , response to Pakistan’s terror tactics

Issues with the National Register of Citizens in Assam

Rajesh Singh Article

Union Minister for Home Affairs Amit Shah told the Rajya Sabha in the ongoing session of Parliament that the Government would conduct a pan-India exercise to prepare a National Register of Citizens (NRC). His remarks have drawn criticism from opposi....

November 28, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Article , The NRC debate , problem of illegal migration , amending the Citizenship Act , 1955

The China Factor in RCEP

Amb Anil Wadhwa, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

After seven years of negotiations, the 16 participating states in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement issued a statement on 4 November 2019 at Bangkok, conveying that 15 of the participating states had concluded text-base....

November 26, 2019 Economic Studies , Article , RCEP conditions , India’s economic interests vs RCEP