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Revisiting Korean War in its 70th Anniversary
June 30 , 2020 Professor Rajaram Panda
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June 25, 2020 marked the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. It was on this day when Communist North Korea invaded the US-backed South triggering a three-year long war that killed millions from both sides. On this occasion, the two allies, the United States and South Korea, reaffirmed their commitment to defending “the hard-fought peace” on the divided peninsula amid continuous threat and sabre-rattling by North Korea.
Tags : 60 Para Field Ambulance , 70th Anniversary , Ceasefire , Communist , Demilitarised zone , Kim Jong-un , Korean War , Moon Jae-in , Panmunjom , Prisoners of war , Syngman Rhee , UN , International Relations and Diplomacy
Et Tu Caesar – Unending Plight of Syria!
June 29 , 2020 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 3006
“Et tu Brutus” has been synonymous with perfidy. But on June 17 when the USA invoked its “Caesar Act” against Syria and its embattled President Assad, pursuant to the geo-political games, Assad would have closed the caption by accusing Caesar - his current nemesis in the form of a chasing and chastising hyper power. For nearly a decade due to foreign interventions and lack of foresight on the part of its leaders Syria’s socio-economic fabric has been sundered apart.
Tags : Assad , Caesar Act , China BRI , Hezoballah , ISIS , refugees , Russia , Turkey , US Sanctions , International Relations and Diplomacy
Nepalese Budget for 2020-21: More Figures than Solutions
June 29 , 2020 Prof Hari Bansh Jha
Article Views: 2565
On May 28, 2020, Finance Minister, Yubaraj Khatiwada, presented Federal Budget of Rs. 1,474 billion for the FY 2020-21 at a time when the entire nation is engulfed by coronavirus pandemic. In such an unusual period, expectations were that the budget would support such innovative health-related measures that could control the growing number of coronavirus cases in the country, which has taken a toll of 26 lives and over 11,162 people are infected as of June 25, 2020.
Tags : Agriculture sector , China , COVID-19 , Health sector , Infrastructure Development , Land Banks , Madhes region , migrant workers , Nepal Budget , Nepal , Neighbourhood Studies
Managing the LAC: Rules are Handrails, and Not Handcuffs!
June 27 , 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.)
Article Views: 3401
The Dragon is awake, and is vigourously seeking to establish Pax Sinica! Of the two milestones of the 100th anniversaries of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 2021 and 2049 respectively, the first will be a big event in the tenure of the current President Xi Jinping.
Tags : National Security and Strategic Studies , Agreement for Maintenance peace & Stability , Border Maintenance Posture , CBMs , Galwan , LAC , Ladakh , Pangong Tso , PLA , ROE , China , Border and Coastal Security , Neighbourhood Studies
US’ Priority: Pacific, within the Indo-Pacific
June 26 , 2020 Dr Vijay Sakhuja
Article Views: 2990
The ongoing operational maneuvers by the US military in the Pacific Ocean, establishment of the Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI) in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, and a new approach towards Taipei through the Taiwan Defence Act are indicative of the primacy of the Pacific Ocean in the broader US Indo-Pacific Strategy.
Tags : Ladakh. , Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI); National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021;Taiwan Defence Act; US Indo-Pacific Strategy; Guam Homeland Defense System-Guam (HDS-G); DF-21D and DF-26; US’ Indo-Pacific strategy; Quadrilateral Security Dial , Indo-Pacific , International Relations and Diplomacy
How Sport Mirrors the India- Pakistan Relationship
June 26 , 2020 Amb Jitendra Nath Misra
Article Views: 2670
Sport is complex. As well as being skill, it is also diplomacy. Skills matter, but it is “grievance sport,” when players seek to avenge history, that counts. For example, India and Pakistan are unable to delink personal pieties from inter- state relations.1 In cricket and hockey, the rivalry is blood sport. But kabaddi, wrestling and other sports also produce skirmishes. Athletes front as ambassadors, yet they have also brawled. This essay addresses hockey. Cultural Warriors and Strategic Equivalence
Tags : hockey matches , India , Pakistan , pantomime warriors , Pakistan , Neighbourhood Studies
क्या कोविड-19 से जंग हार रहा है पाकिस्तान?
June 25 , 2020 Tilak Devasher, Consultant, VIF
Article Views: 2687
पूरी दुनिया कोविड-19 महामारी से जूझ रही है मगर पाकिस्तान का इस संकट से निपटने का तरीका देखकर डर लग रहा है कि अगर वह जल्द नहीं संभला तो यह जंग हारने का जोखिम खड़ा हो जाएगा।
Tags : COVID-19 , Hindi , तालाबंदी , ध्रुवीकरण , परीक्षण की कमी , पाकिस्तान , बलूचिस्तान , सिंध , Pakistan , Neighbourhood Studies
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