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The unanticipated success of "radical" candidates in Hong Kong's Legislative Council election, including student activists central to the "umbrella revolution" of two years ago, has shaken the territory's pro-Chinese establishment and seized ground from more moderate pro-democracy voices. More fractious politics look set to continue in the immediate future.
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Akshay Mathur, Director of Research and Fellow of Geoeconomics Studies, Gateway House, was quoted in an article on Christine Lagarde in the Canadian magazine Maclean's.
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This week in our special mini-series on the U.S. Elections and it's foreign policy implications, Ambassador Neelam Deo discusses the policy gap between the candidates on the immigration issue, as well as whether the push for STEM visa might change things for Indian students studying abroad.
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An article on Indian maritime policy by Seema Sirohi, a Washington-based journalist and regular contributor to Gateway House, was republished by Quartz.
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An article by Amit Bhandari, Fellow, Energy and Environment Studies, Gateway House, on Chinese and Indian oil investment was republished by Swarajya Magazine.
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India's policy towards the Indian Ocean has begun to take a clear, coherent form with the signing of the Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement with the United States, an important bilateral visit to Vietnam by Prime Minister Modi, and an ambitious future being laid out by Foreign Secretary Jaishankar
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At the G20 summit in Hangzhou, leaders are expected to discuss the potential for strengthening the international monetary system and the conditions under which SDR could play an important role in this regard. This is a step that is well overdue but will require a major leap in international policy coordination.
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Akshay Mathur, Director, Research and Analysis, and Fellow, Geoeconomics Studies, Gateway House was interviewed by CCTV and involved in panel discussions on the G20 Summit.
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Sameer Patil, Fellow, National Security, Ethnic Conflict, and Terrorism, and Rajni Bakshi, Gandhi Peace Fellow, Gateway House, were referenced in an article on China's One Belt One Road initiative in the Lowy Interpreter.
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The visit of the Myanmar president was a landmark visit, the first in five decades. It raises the fundamental question as to whether the visit will bring forth major strategic and economic gains in the India-Myanmar relationship.