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Commentary: Rafael Deal - To Be Lauded Not Pilloried
December 18, 2017 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Commentary

In a Parliamentary Democracy the Opposition's role is clearly to criticise the Government. Such criticism must, however, be directed at the Government's failures not its successes. Should the Opposition engage in criticism for the sake of criticism, ....

Keywords : National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Commentary , Rafael Deal , defence procurement , technology transfer
Commentary - Takeaways from Joint Exercises; Some Tangible Mostly Intangible
December 01, 2017 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Commentary

Indian armed forces continue to engage with a large number of friendly foreign counties for the conduct military exercises. Most of these are yearly or biannual events conducted alternatively in each other’s location. For instance, in our immediate....

Keywords : International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , Joint military exercises , strategic partnership
Commentary - Repairing Sino-India Relationship: A Chinese Perspective
December 01, 2017 Siwei Liu Commentary

The Donglang border crisis has been defused for nearly three months. However, up to now, the Sino-Indian relations have not completely out of the shadow and it is still in an atmosphere of suspicion and mistrust. There were many bilateral annual dial....

Keywords : International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , Sino-Indian relations , strategic distrust , China-India bilateral dialogue
Commentary - Rise of Terrorism in Mozambique: First Islamist Attack Shock the Region
November 20, 2017 Dr Neha Sinha Commentary

Mozambique lies in the southern east part of Africa, surrounded by the Indian Ocean in the east with its neighbouring countries as Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and South Africa. It has a population of around 29 million and occupies a....

Keywords : International Relations and Diplomacy , Africa , Commentary , Mozambique , Al-Shabaab , Islamist terror
Commentary - Modi's Manila Visit
November 20, 2017 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Commentary

As is the norm with the Prime Minister's visits abroad he did India proud during his recent three day visit to Manila. In an action packed agenda which inter alia comprised participation in the opening ceremony of the ASEAN Summit, the 12th ASEA....

Keywords : International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , Manila Summit , Indo-Pacific security , quadrilateral dialogue
Commentary - Presidential Elections in Kyrgyzstan: More Continuity than Change
November 14, 2017 Dr Rashmini Koparkar Commentary

Kyrgyzstan is a small, landlocked and mountainous republic in the heart of Asia. Because of its remote location and tiny population (about 6 million) not much is reported about it. The country borders China on the east and three Central Asian Republi....

Keywords : International Relations and Diplomacy , Central Asia , Commentary , Kyrgyzstan elections , democratic reforms
Commentary: The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Status of Taiwan
November 08, 2017 Dr Teshu Singh Commentary

On 18 October 2017 Xi Jinping delivered a speech at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. While speaking on the section of ‘Upholding One Country, Two Systems’ and ‘Moving towards National Reunification’, he mentioned ab....

Keywords : International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , China , Taiwan , 19th National Congress
Commentary - In Complete Control: Xi Jinping is China’s Undisputed Leader
November 06, 2017 Brig Gurmeet Kanwal Commentary

As had been widely anticipated, President Xi Jinping consolidated his position as the undisputed “core” leader of China at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China held at Beijing in the third week of October 2017. Xi....

Keywords : International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , Chinese Dream , 19th Party Congress of CPC
Commentary - J&K: Special Representative’s Road Ahead will not be Easy
November 04, 2017 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

Appointment of Mr Dineshwar Sharma , former Director of Intelligence Bureau (DIB), as special ‘Representative’(SR) by the government for Kashmir to interact with the wide cross section of society in Kashmir to understand their “legitimate aspi....

Keywords : Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , Rajnath Singh , J&K special Representative , Kashmir dialogue , Home Minister , Dineshwar_Sharma , Intelligence Bureau , IB , Ajit Dovl
Commentary - What the Election Results Mean for Japan?
November 01, 2017 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF Commentary

The Lower House Elections held in Japan on October 22 have given a resounding mandate to Prime Minister (PM) Shinzo Abe to remain in office till 2021. Abe, the third longest-serving PM of the post-war era is now on track to becoming (in November 2019....

Keywords : International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , Japan Elections , Abenomics
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