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COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 7, 2020
May 7 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
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The resilient U.S. dollar and the resulting weakness in emerging-market currencies amid the coronavirus pandemic is increasing the risk of default on Asian companies' corporate debt, potentially triggering a wider credit crisis.Analysts say emerging Asia should tread with caution as domestic debt markets cannot rival the dollar bond market.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : COVID-19 , Currency Swaps , Daily scan , Debt Markets , European Banking Authority , European Union , Khalilzad , LNG demand , Phase 1 trade deal , Resilient dollar , Short-time Work , Swiss National Bank , Taiwan , Tomhawks , US- China tensions , WHO

West Asia Roundup - April 2020
May 7 , 2020 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Hirak Jyoti Das, Senior Research Associate, VIF
Article Views: 3324
Covid -19 has not dented the desire of the hotspots in West Asia to stay hotter despite it being the Holy month of Ramadan. Any how the war weary Saudi Arabia led coalition declared a unilateral ceasefire in Yemen and further extended it which the Houthis did not accept and fighting continued.

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Covid -19 , GNA , Iran-US escalation , ISIS , Khalifa Haftar , Lebanon Protest , OPEC , Situation in southern Yemen

Beyond the COVID-19: Indian Defence Industry
May 6 , 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Article Views: 4845
The social media is bulging at seams in making unending predictions by the hour related to the ‘life after Covid’. The continuum ranges from a ‘total doomsday’ scenario painted by the naysayersto the ‘w...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Challenges of Services , COVID-19 , Defence and aerospace sector , Defence industry , Post covid world

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 6, 2020
May 6 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 3005
Joe Biden’s advantage over President Donald Trump in popular support has eroded in recent weeks as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee struggles for visibility with voters during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on May 05.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Afghanistan , Aramco , COVID-19 , Daily scan , Dubai , Europe , Hong Kong , Investment funds , Joe Biden , Money Laundering , Oil , Phase 2 talks , South China Sea , Trade Deficit , Transportation

The Maoists, Violence, and their ‘Alternate Revolutionary Programme’
May 6 , 2020 Dr Uddipan Mukherjee
Article Views: 5661
As human beings distance away from each other to deny the corona virus any additional mass and volume, the left-wing insurgents in India's dense jungles converge into south Bastar in central India from neighbouring provinces as well as from Nepal1:

National Security and Strategic Studies, Leftwing Extremism

Tags : Charu Mazumdar , CPI (M) , dictatorship of the proletariat , ideology , Lenin , Mao Tse-tung , Maoists , Marx , New Democratic State , Violence

Fragile Unity Government in Israel
May 5 , 2020 Hirak Jyoti Das, Senior Research Associate, VIF
Article Views: 3921
On 20 April 2020, the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Likud Party signed an agreement to form unity government with Benny Gantz’s Kahol Lavan Party ending the yearlong political deadlock and averting the possibility of fourth election.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : COVID-19; Likud; Kahol Lavan; MIddle East Peace Process; Annexation plan; Illegal settlements

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