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Sino-Indian Standoff: Can India Rely on USA?
Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Article

The deterioration in China's relations with the USA and India have not entirely uncoincidentally been accompanied by the blossoming of ties between the latter. Nevertheless, as India looks down the barrel of a military confrontation with China, as a ....

August 20, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , China , Trump , BECA , Ladakh , India-US military , Chinese espionage , alliance of democracies , Biden , Uyghurs
Sino- Iran Proposed Accord: China’s Expansionism Continues
Major General (Retd.) Ajay Kumar Chaturvedi, AVSM, VSM Article

Introduction
Sometime back there was a news item that Iran has decided to undertake construction of the Chabahar- Zahedan Railway Line on its own. The reason given was that India who was earlier building that Railway line was going slow on ....

August 19, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Climate Change , Article , India , China , PLA Navy , JCPOA , USA , Chabahar , IRGC , Zahedan , railway line , Khomeini
The Fallacy of One China Policy
Abanti Bhattacharya Commentary

“We support the One China policy. However, we expect you to also have a One India policy.” These were the words of the late External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj spoken to the Foreign Minister of China, Wang Yi in June 2014. With rising Chines....

August 18, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , Tibet , Xinjiang , One China , One India , Taiwan Relations Act , Uighur unrest
चीनी राजदूत ने भाषण में अनदेखे किए भारत-चीन रिश्तों में आए बदलाव
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

भारत में चीन के राजदूत सुन वेइदोंग ने 30 जुलाई 2020 को दिल्ली स्थित इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ चाइनीज स्टडीज मे�....

August 14, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , लद्दाख , लाच , गालवान विस्तारवाद , चीन का राजदूत भाषण , वन चाइना पॉलिसी , मोदी-शी की आम सहमति
China menace decoded by the USA
Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Article

If Sino Indian relations have reached an inflexion point following China's breach of all agreements as demonstrated by their recent actions in Eastern Ladakh so too have Sino-US relations. While the latter had been under stress, since the advent of t....

August 11, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , India , US , China , QUAD , Trump , CCP , Covid , WTO , Huawei , ZTE , LAC , Xi Jinping dreams , Stealing data , FBI cases , Intellectual property , espionage
Countering the Dragon in the Skies
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

This is a linked brief with the previous work titled ‘Power Behind Arrogance’ carried on the VIF portal on 23 Jun 2020.1 The previous article dealt with the analysis of the air and missile arsenal of China. It analysed how the Chine....

August 08, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Chinese threat , PLAAF threat , IAF air and missile power
Floods in China: Yet another critical test for Xi Jinping
Dr Teshu Singh Article

Floods in China are an annual phenomenon. This year’s flood comes at the time when China is already battling the COVID-19 which has hit 27 out of 31 provinces of China. Since June, torrential rain in China has broken all records. It is the most dev....

August 07, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Xi Jinping , Disaster , PLA , Li Keqiang , COVID-19 , Three Gorges Dam , Yangtze River , Floods , Black Swan
Has a Cold War Started between U.S. and China?
Amb K P Fabian Article

China-U.S. relations are deteriorating at a rapid pace and some scholars have wondered whether we are witnessing the beginnings of Cold War 2 between the two biggest economies? On 21st July 2020, the U.S. State Department ordered that Chinese C....

August 04, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , China , Article , US , China , Taiwan , Trump , Japan , Globalisation , COVID-19 , UN Security Council , Hong Kong , Cold War , Nixon
Chinese Ambassador’s Speech Ignores that a lot has changed in Sino-Indian Relations
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

On 30 July 2020, the Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong delivered an important speech at the Delhi based Institute for Chinese Studies in which he spoke about the current state of Sino Indian relations after the Galwan incident on the Line of Ac....

August 01, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , LAC , Ladakh , Galwan , expansionism , China's Ambassador speech , One China policy , Modi-Xi consensus , hegemony
India’s Chinese Conundrum
Vivek Sugandh Article

“China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move the world” (Xinran, 2011). This quote, attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte acknowledges the unprecedented change the rise of China will bring about in the world. In the fiel....

July 28, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , China , Xi Jinping , Doklam , Galwan valley , Atmanirbhar Bharat , expansionism
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