Articles

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

The Russo-Ukraine War 2022 has clearly indicated that warfare is changing at dramatic rate and scope and historical similarities might not provide any guidance to the future ones. Our experience of past wars would be divorced from realities of 21st C....

May 14, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Ukraine , PGMs , Human Rights , Mariupol , battlespace , logistics planning , political strategy , tanks

China: Daily Scan, April 20, 2022

Xi stresses enhancing digital gov't construction, advancing fiscal reforms: Xinhuanet

April 20, 2022

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday stressed efforts to enhance the building of a digital government and advance fiscal sys....

April 20, 2022 Australia , Japan , Ukraine , Hong Kong , U.S. , Shanghai , China Daily Digest , Tesla , Suzhou , Lianhua Qingwen , Meng Fanli , SOE

Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Implications for Central Asia

Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Senior Research Associate , VIF Article

Background

Central Asia is geo-strategically significant for the Kremlin as the region border Afghanistan and Iran to the South, China to the East, and the Caspian Sea to the West. The Central Asian region is considered Russia’s sphere o....

April 19, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Central Asia , Article , Russia , Kyrgyzstan , economy , Uzbekistan , Ukraine , Tajikistan , Remittances , Eurasian Union , Labour Migrants , CSTO. Kazakhstan

Russia-Ukraine Crisis and its Impact on Central Asia

Amb Ashok Sajjanhar

Central Asia is Russia’s sphere of Influence, and Moscow is also the security provider in the region. In addition, Central Asian economies are highly dependent on remittances from the Russian Federation. Central Asia has been heavily impacted by th....

April 19, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Central Asia , UNGA resolution , Russia , Ukraine , Economic Slowdown , Remittances , Food Security , Podcast , Energy Exports , Labour Migrants , Western Sanctions

China: Daily Scan, April 12, 2022

Chinese premier calls for stabilization of employment, prices to shore up economy: Xinhuanet

April 11, 2022

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Monday called for the stabilization of employment and price levels to keep the country's e....

April 12, 2022 NATO , Ukraine , Covid , BeiDou , Shanghai , China Daily Digest , Hainan , Omicron , Guangzhou

VIF Cyber Review: March 2022

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National Policy on Electronics 2019: India as a global hub for Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM)

On 30 March 2022, the National Policy on Electronics (NPE) 2019 was notified by the Ministry of Electroni....

April 07, 2022 Russia , Ukraine , Cybercrime , EU , Phishing , Facebook , cybersecurity , VIF Cyber Review , NPE2019 , MeitY , GDPR , CERTIN , Ireland

Strategic Discussion | Reviewing the Ukraine Crisis

Well over fifteen days into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the VIF strategic discussions group convened on 15 March 2022 to review the ongoing developments and to deliberate on the future trajectories of the evolving geopolitical situation. The dis....

April 06, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Conferences , Central Asia , Ukraine , Chinese involvement

Ukraine Crisis: Towards a New World Order

Brig Dinesh Mathur (Retd.) Article

The international order that existed after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War heralded the emergence of a unipolar world with the operation of the Western Alliance sustained largely by the US (and Canada) military power an....

April 06, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , Russia , Europe , NATO , Ukraine , Cold War , World Order , Crimea

China: Daily Scan, April 6, 2022

China sincerely wants peace in Ukraine: Xinhuanet

April 5, 2022

China hopes Russia and Ukraine would stick to peace talks until a ceasefire agreement is reached and the only thing that China wants is peace in Ukraine, State Coun....

April 06, 2022 Neighbourhood Studies , Xi Jinping , Ukraine , Coronavirus , COVID-19 , Huawei , Hong Kong , Shanghai , Omicron , Washington , JL-10 trainer

China: Daily Scan, April 5, 2022

Xi's remarks on boosting China-EU cooperation for world stability: Xinhuanet

April 4, 2022

Chinese President Xi Jinping met via video link with European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Urs....

April 05, 2022 Ukraine , Shanghai , China Daily Digest , Wang Jianbing , Sophia Huang