Articles | Vivekananda International Foundation

Understanding China’s Belt and Road Initiative

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised a seminar on 8 April, 2019, on ‘Understanding China’s Belt and Road Initiative’. The deliberations were divided in three broad themes: Aims and Drivers of the Belt and Road Initiative (BR....

July 11, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Seminars , India , CPEC , China’s Belt and Road Initiative , Southeast Asia , BRI

Interaction with the Visiting Chinese Delegation led by Amb Yang Yanyi

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) hosted a Chinese delegation led by Amb. Yang Yanyi, (Former Head of the Chinese Mission to the European Union). She was accompanied by Mr Zhu Feng, Executive Director of China Center for Collaborative St....

July 10, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Interaction , South China Sea , European Union , US-China trade

Tiananmen Square Incident @ 30

Dr Gunjan Singh Commentary

The year 2019 is very special in the calendar of China as it marks some of the most important anniversaries. But the one anniversary which Beijing refuses to acknowledge is the thirty years since the Tiananmen Square Incident. On June 3 and 4, 1989 h....

June 14, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , Tiananmen 89 , Party surveillance in China

China’s Great Leap Forward-II, by Lt Gen Gautam Bannerjee, PVSM, AVSM, YSM (Retired), Lancer Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi, India, 152 pages, INR 595/-, 2019

Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty

The Great Leap Forward was a campaign run in the People’s Republic of China from 1958 to 1962. Chairman Mao Zedong led the campaign and the aim was to transform an agricultural economy to a socialist society through rapid industrialisation and coll....

May 31, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , OBOR , CPEC , PLA , Book Reviews , China’s Great Leap Forward , Republic of China , CMEC , BCIM

China-India Interaction from Bilateral to Regional Level, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

The Center for South Asia-West China Cooperation and Development Studies (SAWCCAD) and the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, organised a conference on ‘China-India Interaction: From Bilateral to Regional L....

May 07, 2019 Conference , International Relations and Diplomacy , China , QUAD , BRI , Sichuan University , South Asian Studies , Chinese diplomacy , India-US relations

The Second Belt and Road Forum

Dr Gunjan Singh Commentary

The second Belt and Road Forum (BRF) was held in Beijing from April 25-27, 2019. The first BRF was held in 2017. This BRF saw the participation of more than 150 countries underscoring the argument that the appeal for Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) ha....

May 06, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , Second Belt and Road Forum , Global interest on BRI , Xi Jinping’s benign narrative

An assessment of the Second Plenum of China’s 13th National People’s Congress

.. convened in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in the first fortnight of March 2019, the annual plenary sessions set the agenda for the year ahead and accorded formal approval of the entire 89 million-strong Chinese Communist Party to the pol....

April 30, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Xi Jinping , Chinese Communist Party , 13th National People’s Congress

Does Data Tell everything about Tibet?

Dr Gunjan Singh Commentary

Under Xi Jinping the heavy handedness of the Chinese government has consistently increased in Tibet. The Chinese government has ordered the Tibetan families who are beneficiaries of the government’s aid to replace the images of the Dalai Lama and o....

April 26, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , Repression in Tibet , suppression of Tibetan culture

Interaction with China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR)

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) hosted a delegation from China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), Beijing. The delegation consisted of researchers from various institutes of CICIR. The following were the partic....

April 25, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Interaction , Indo-Pacific , CICIR , India-China cooperation

Initial Assessment of China’s CPPCC Plenary Session, 2019

Jayadeva Ranade Article

Earlier in March this year, China successfully concluded plenary meetings of the Party’s top two bodies, which set the agenda for the year ahead. 2158 delegates of China's top political advisory body, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Con....

April 09, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , China’s CPPCC plenary , 2019 , Xi Jinping’s policies with Chinese characteristics