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COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 25, 2020
May 25 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 2514
Economic Xi stresses analysing China's economy from comprehensive, dialectical, long-term perspective- CPPCC 2020

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Akademik Lomonosov , Arctic , Corporate bailouts , Covid Surcharge , COVID-19 , CPEC , Cyclone Amphan , Daily scan , Digital tax , Iran-Venezuela , Macau , Savings , Xi state visit

What happened at World Health Assembly?
May 25 , 2020 Amb K P Fabian
Commentary Views: 3112
There is considerable confusion as to what happened in the diplomatic bridge game between rising China and declining US, declining at an accelerated pace under President Trump, who holding trumps got tr...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : China , COVID-19 , US , World Health Assembly , Xi Jinping

Can SAARC be made Effective?
May 25 , 2020 Dr Sreeradha Datta
Article Views: 5186
The world at large including South Asia is already facing the devastating effects of Covid-19. This region already burdened with its teeming populations, uneven layers of growth and governance issues, a...

Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : COVID-19 , India , Public health sector , SAARC

DTIS – Keeping up the Pace and Momentum
May 25 , 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Article Views: 3204
On 30 Apr 2020 the Prime Minister (PM) held a meeting with various stakeholders to discuss ways to boost the Defence and Aerospace sector1. Within a fortnight of this important meeting, the Defence Mini...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : DTIS , Make-I , Make-II , MoD , Testing and Integration

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 22, 2020
May 22 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 3167
Strategic Two Sessions 2020: China increases defence spending by 6.6 per cent but sets no GDP target, focuses on Hong Kong national security law

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : COVID-19 , Daily scan , Economic Prosperity Network , Euro , Face masks , Hong Kong , Locusts , National People’s Congress , Olympics , Open Skies Treaty , Remedesvir

IS Pakistan Losing the COVID-19 Battle?
May 22 , 2020 Tilak Devasher, Consultant, VIF
Article Views: 3001
While the entire world is grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, Pakistan’s handling of the crisis raises fears that if it does not get its act together quickly, it may be at risk of losing the battle.

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Balochistan , COVID-19 , lack of testing , lockdown , Pakistan , polarisation , Sindh

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