How COVID- 19 weakened American leadership
Unlike Hollywood movies where Americans have the lead in saving the world, the crisis of the corona virus pandemic has shown the opposite. The first major test showed that the American health care system...
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Taiwan says India helped Paraguay get vaccines after Chinese pressure
Taiwan worked with other democracies to help its diplomatic ally Paraguay get COVID-19 vaccines after China put pressure on the South American country to ditch Taipei in exchange for shots, and India stepped in...
QUAD in the Indo-Pacific
The QUAD (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) leaders had their first summit-level meeting on 12th March 2021. Leaders of all four member-states had a virtual meeting to discuss the issues of common interest. Combating the Chinese aggression in...
Afghanistan Foreign Minister’s visit to India Amid the Rising Uncertainty over the Afghan Peace Process
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan Mohammed Haneef Atmar is on a three-day visit to New Delhi amid growing uncertainty over US troop withdrawal. The Afghan Foreign Minister arrived on 22nd March to...
Vaccine Passports: More harm than good?
The first known case of COVID-19 infection emerged around November-December 2019. The disease reached pandemic levels by 2020. Subsequently, the world invested in finding potential vaccines to fight against this virus. The scientists faced...
Indian Foreign Secretary speaks at Aspen Centre: India’s Neighbourhood Policy to India’s Vaccine Maitri
On 15th March 2021, the Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla addressed at Ananta Aspen Centre on the theme ‘What Next for Neighbourhood First?’. Shringla started his talk by stating that ‘India’s destiny is...
India Emerges as the Vaccine Powerhouse
With the world’s biggest inoculation drives against COVID-19, manufacturing about 60% of vaccines globally and shipping millions of free doses to friendly neighbours in the region, in what is being described as “vaccine diplomacy”,...
Is Vaccine Diplomacy inoculating India’s political ambitions?
Neighbourhood First approach of India remained inefficient in soothing the bilateral tensions with South Asia’s neighbouring countries. For the last few years, India is witnessing an escalation in political antagonism with the neighbours, for...
Leaked document reveals that China is pressuring Nepal to take its Sinovac vaccine
Leaked reports of correspondence between Nepal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu show that Beijing had put pressure on the Himalayan nation to acknowledge its COVID antibody without its efficiency...
India reaches out to neighbours with COVID vaccine
India, one of the world’s driving drug makers, on Tuesday said it will give COVID-19 antibodies under assistance to Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar and Seychelles from Wednesday, and that shipments will be shipped...
