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Global Developments and Analysis: Weekly Monitor, 15 November - 21 November 2021

Economic

U.S. asks Japan, China, others to consider tapping oil reserves -sources

The Biden administration has asked some of the world's largest oil consuming nations - including China, India and Japan - to consider releasing crud....

November 23, 2021 South Korea , China , Russia , United States , COVID-19 , Covid-19 International Daily Scan

South Korea’s Success in Manufacturing: Some Pointers for ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’

Amb Skand Ranjan Tayal Commentary

The people and government of India are striving to achieve national objectives of ‘Make in India’ and raise the contribution of manufacturing in the country’s GDP from the current 16% to 25% by the year 2025. In the context of the debilitating ....

August 26, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , South Korea , NITI Aayog , FICCI , R & D , innovation , Atmanirbhar Bharat , CII , Ease of Doing Business , Investment Ombudsman , NOCs

Fallout of COVID-19: Japanese and Koreans to shift base from China to India

Prof Rajaram Panda Article

Introduction

The outbreak of the deadly coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan has dramatically altered the social, political and economic lives of millions in as many as 205 countries. No one can even hazard a guess the kind of life th....

April 23, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , South Korea , China , Japan , Coronavirus , COVID-19 , WTO , Suzuki , Hyundai , Samsung , FDI , POSCO , HDFC Bank , Supply chains

Indo-Pacific meeting on COVID-19

Amruta Karambelkar, Research Associate, VIF Commentary

On 20th of March a teleconference was held amongst some countries of the Indo-Pacific on the COVID-19 pandemic. The meeting was called by US and the participating countries included India, Japan, Australia, South Korea, New Zealand and Vietnam. The o....

March 25, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , India , South Korea , US , Indo-Pacific , QUAD , Australia , Japan , Vietnam , COVID-19 , Corona Virus , New Zealand , International cooperation

Review of Japan 2019 and Outlook for 2020

Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

2019 was an eventful year for Japan in both national and international domains. From an imperial transition to being the G20 Chair, to major trade agreements and the deadly Typhoon Hagibis, the year was filled with its share of ups and downs for Japa....

February 03, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Article , India , South Korea , US , China , Iran , EU , Reiwa Era , G20 , Northeast India

Mongolia’s Buddhist Diplomacy and India’s Union of Religious and Foreign Policy

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The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), along with Indian, Japanese, and Mongolian partners, hosted its third Samvad (which, in Hindi, means “dialogue”) conference in Ulaanbaatar over last Friday and the weekend. As reported in BDG’s ne....

September 16, 2019 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Article , South Korea , China , Myanmar , Japan , Asia , Buddhism , Samvad , A New India , Ulaanbaatar , buddhist diplomacy , vifindia , military , mongolia , religion

Interaction with Delegation from the Institute of National Security Strategy, South Korea

The interaction was focused on India-South Korea bilateral relations and the uncertainty in the regional security architecture. Criticality of the Korean Peninsula in stabilizing the Northeast Asian order, dichotomy between the peace and denucleariza....

December 25, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , South Korea , Indo-Pacific , Korean Peninsula , India’s Act East , New Southern Policy

Interaction with Institute of Democracy

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) hosted an interaction with a senior delegation from the Institute of Democracy, South Korea, on November 22, 2018. The delegation was led by the director, Mr. Kim Minseok, who was formerly a member of th....

December 11, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , South Korea , India-South Korea relations , Institute of Democracy

Commentary: North Korea Takes Advantage of Flags of Convenience Regime

Dr Vijay Sakhuja Commentary

Amid high decibel ‘verbal exchanges’ between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over latter’s nuclear ambition, the United Nations Security Council announced on 22 December 2017 new economic sanctions against Democrat....

January 12, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , International shipping , UN sanctions , North Korea , South Korea , US , Regime , United Nations Security Council , China , Russia

Nuclear Sabre-rattling: Pakistan must Discard its Tactical Nuclear Weapons

Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

“Any nuclear weapon, of any quality, mode of delivery or yield, used against any type of target, will result in a strategic impact to which the logical response would be the use of nuclear weapons, more often than not, on an overwhelming....

October 10, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Nuclear and Disarmament , Pakistan , South Korea , Tactical Nuclear Weapons , Nuclear War , Air Force , Foreign Minister , TNWs , weapons , Sabre-rattling , Nuclear Weapons