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China’s Strategy to Overcome the Virus Stigma is “Belligerence”
July 11 , 2020 Praveen Menon
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On June 15 2020, Col. B Santosh Babu probably didn’t expect to walk up to a Chinese observation post at the vertex of the bend in Galwan River. It was strange because the PLA themselves had dismantled the post after the talks few days back. A sense of curiosity may have dominated his mind when he decided to not leave it to “youngsters” and set out to enquire personally at 7 pm. After all he had the responsibility of controlling the border in which no shot has been fired for decades.
Tags : belligerence , China , Col. Santosh Babu , COVID-19 , Gen. Zhao Zongqi , wolf warriors , Xi Jinping , China , Neighbourhood Studies
US Augments Military Bases, Revitalizes Lilly Pads and Pushes for Visiting Forces Agreements in the Pacific Ocean
July 10 , 2020 Dr Vijay Sakhuja, Consultant, VIF
Article Views: 567
Earlier this month, on 1st July, 350 paratroopers from the US 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) parachuted onto Guam to test their ability to “execute real-world missions” and demonstrate that they could be deployed “anywhere in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command area at a moment’s notice,”1 Embarked onboard multiple C-17 Globemasters, the paratroopers took a long flight from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska for this Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise (EDRE).
Tags : Bashi Channel , Guam , Hawaii , Lilly Pads in Pacific Ocean , Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz , Pagan Island , South China Sea , Taiwan Strait , Tinian Island , Visiting Forces Agreement , Wake Island , Indo-Pacific , International Relations and Diplomacy
Where Egypt is Going?
July 10 , 2020 Amb K P Fabian
Commentary Views: 269
Egypt, once the uncontested leader of the Arab world under President Gamal Abdel Nasser (1954-70), remains one of the most important countries in the Arab world and in Africa. Obviously, what happens to Egypt is important and a matter of concern to the international community. Official Egypt has celebrated with industriously choreographed éclat the 30th June Revolution of 2013 that paved the way to the military coup of 3rd July. Let us recall the historical background to this Revolution.
Tags : Arab Spring , Deep State , El Sisi , Muslim Brotherhood , President Morsi , Supreme Council of Armed Forces , International Relations and Diplomacy
कोरोनावायरस के बीच मध्य एशिया के प्रवासी श्रमिक
July 10 , 2020 Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Research Associate , VIF
Article Views: 439
‘प्रवासी’ शब्द का मतलब अक्सर ऐसा व्यक्ति मान लिया जाता है, जो अनचाहा बोझ होता है और देश की अर्थव्यवस्था में जिनका आर्थिक योगदान मुश्किल से ही मापा जाता है। प्रवास और विदेश से देश में आने वाले धन यानी रीमिटंस के बीच संबंध को एक श्रृंखला के तौर पर समझा जा सकता है।
Tags : Central Asia , Hindi , अंतरराष्ट्रीय सीमाएं , किर्गिजिस्तान , कोरोनावायरस , ताजिकिस्तान , प्रवासी कामगार , प्रवासी श्रमिक , मध्य एशिया , महामारी , लॉकडाउन , International Relations and Diplomacy
Border Brinkmanship: A Miscalculation by China
July 9 , 2020 Air Marshal SS Soman (Retd.)
Article Views: 1009
India and China have been engaged in a tense military faceoff that has witnessed numerous violent incidents over the last two months in Eastern Ladakh. The standoff has resulted from an aggressive border brinkmanship triggered by China, to assert its unsubstantiated territorial claims over Indian areas in line with its decades-old policy of creeping aggression.
Tags : National Security and Strategic Studies , Air Power , China , Expansionist , Galwan valley , LAC , Ladakh , Taiwan , Tibet , Xinjiang , Defence
Countering Coercion in The Indo-Pacific
July 8 , 2020 Vice Admiral Girish Luthra (retd.)
Article Views: 1071
Deliberate and pre-meditated intrusions by China, along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India, and consequent Indian responses, have raised concerns globally about the potential of escalation. Diplomatic, economic, military, informational, and technological options available to each side, for posturing and execution, have been and continue to be under analysis and assessment. Discussions and commentary in India, on preparations and readiness for a Two-front war, dormant for some time-have also resurfaced, with renewed emphasis and conviction.
Tags : China , Coercion , Indian Ocean Region , LAC , Maritime Security Strategy , PLA , Two Front war , Indo-Pacific , International Relations and Diplomacy
Mapping Israeli Sovereignty, Jewish Settlements, and a Future Palestinian State
July 8 , 2020 Mayuri Mukherjee
Article Views: 697
July 1 has come and gone, and despite the hysteria in some circles, the world did not wake up this past Wednesday to find that Israel had become sovereign over large parts of Palestinian land. So what was all the hoopla about, and what lies ahead? Let’s start with a basic question: what exactly was supposed to happen on July 1?
Tags : Annexation , East Jerusalem , Golan Heights , Israel , Palestine , refugees , sovereignty , Trump Peace Plan , West Bank , International Relations and Diplomacy
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