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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
Impact of Western Sanctions on Russia: Unintended Ramifications
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

The fog of war isn’t just affecting the military aspects of the Ukraine war but going beyond to fundamentally alter an international system that was already turbulent. In this context, the gamut of western economic sanctions on Russia are going bey....

April 02, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , US , China , Russia , Indo-Pacific , JCPOA , economic sanctions , Ukraine , Covid , Yuan , Food Crisis
China: Daily Scan, April 01, 2022

Xi chairs CPC leadership meeting on plane crash emergency response: Xinhuanet
March 31, 2022
The Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Thursday held a meeting to h....

April 01, 2022 India , Russia , Afghanistan , Ukraine , EU , Covid , Hong Kong , Shanghai , China Daily Digest , Taipei , Puxi
Russo-Ukraine War 2022: Sifting the Maze of Russian Political Policy and Military Strategy
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

The best teacher of war is war itself! With a month behind us of the Russo-Ukraine war, it is imperative to rationalise and focus on the war itself, without referral to logic behind the war, the global geopolitics and weaponisation of economics and g....

March 30, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , US , Russia , Ukraine , Crimea , Military Strategy , Donetsk , Luhansk , Mariupol , Azove Battalion , Kherson , political policy
Ukraine crisis: The war that is changing relations, rules
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Article

Having pushed Ukraine into war, the US does not know how to save it. Having started it, Russia does not know where to end it. Having been pushed into the war, Ukraine does not know how to come out of it. It accuses its adversary Russia saying it is a....

March 28, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , NATO , Ukraine , UN Security Council , UAE
Ukraine: As history returns to haunt the world
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Article

In the early 1990s, Francis Fukuyama proclaimed that with the liberal democracy and the free market economy of the West finally emerging as a one-size-fits-all model for all nations, all conflicts that were the source of history had ended. That becam....

March 28, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , Globalisation , NATO , Ukraine , America , Vladimir Putin
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