State Council appoints, removes officials: Xinhuanet
May 27, 2022
The State Council, China's cabinet, announced the appointment and removal of officials Friday. The State Council appointed Qi Yanjun vice minister of public security, Zhao Fengtao...
Chinese firm to invest 300 mln USD in Zimbabwe's lithium mine: Xinhuanet
May 24, 2022
China's Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt said Tuesday it will invest around 300 million U.S. dollars to develop the Arcadia hard-rock lithium mine in Zimbabwe which it...
NPC Constitution, Law Committee deliberates draft amendment to law on local
legislatures, governments: Xinhuanet
March 9, 2022
The Constitution and Law Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) on Monday deliberated a draft amendment to the...
At 8:19 PM, on another day of incessant drizzle in Chennai, I clicked on Bloomberg.com only to see the following headlines captioned boldly on the landing page:
Yes, it is somewhat appropriate – whether intended or not – that Bloomberg had focussed...
“We [EU Member States] reiterate that terrorism, radicalisation, recruitment and financing related to terrorism are main common threats to the internal security of the EU”.
The 2015 Riga Joint Statement1
The vigilance of law-enforcement and...
The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) strives to ensure relevant geo-strategic discussions by different Expert Groups covering global as well as regional issues. In that vein, the groups hosted by VIF not only focused on foreign relations...
The EU adopted a Euro 1.074 trillion dollar budget for a seven-year budget cycle from 1921-27 last month. This was combined with a Euro 750 billion package to assist the Member States to recover from the impact of COVID-19 on their economies.1 While...
Dr Thomas Bagger, Head of Policy Planning, German Foreign Office, visited the VIF on February 24, 2016 for an interaction that ranged across a wide and varied geostrategic landscape, inter alia, the future of the European Union, German foreign...
On 19 November 2015, H.E. Martin Ney, Germany’s Ambassador to India, held an interaction with members of the VIF faculty on a broad range of issues, including, among others, the shifting strands in the present world order, the challenge of ISIS-...
VIF, in collaboration with the Institute for Transnational Studies (ITS), Germany, held a seminar titled ‘Contemporary India-Europe Relations: Prospects and Issues’ on 16 February 2015. Participants to the conference, a mix of diplomatic, security...