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Business will not be the same in the city as institutions would have to be wary of not toeing the line. This will naturally dissuade investors, especially foreign investors who do not wish to get caught up in the political and legal crossfi...
The recent Chinese aggressive behaviour and multi-fronted confrontations, from imposition of draconian laws in Hong Kong, to menacingly targeting Taiwan, suppressing of ASEAN-member states in the South China Sea (SCS) region, trade war with...
States have been the most essential unit since the Treaty of Westphalia. The world has seen the entry of many new actors, but the state remains the most fundamental unit in international relations. The 9/11 attacks represent a major shift i...
Amid the escalating tensions in the Indo-Pacific region stemming from China’s display of military muscle and expansionist design, the spectre of a new cold war with the US and China as the two major combatants is drifting the world to a maj...
Islamic State (IS) emerged as splinter group from a faction of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, during a chaotic conflict in 2003 after the United States led invasion. The vision, which still remains constant, is to establish an ‘Islamic Caliphate’, cover...
China has recently declared that its economy is once more on the path to recovery after dealing with the shocks of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, with the Chinese government being known for its want to propagate false information and conce...
The world at present faces several issues whether it’s the Coronavirus Pandemic, uncertainties over the existing world order have been raised accompanied with inter-state competitions in the political, economic and military realm. Recently,...
With the coming to power of Xi Jinping in 2013, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has adopted a pugnacious foreign policy from direct intervention in Hong Kong to militarising the South China Sea, trade war with the US and border dispute...
The United Nations Organisation, the world’s largest multi-sectoral multilateral inter-governmental institution is under increasing threat of becoming irrelevant in the emerging world order. The leaders of the powerful countries that consti...
For any nation, maintaining its national security interests, is one of its top most priorities. In order to do so, nation states have made use of many devices that do not generally fall under the traditional military use. One such device is...
In an age of constant change, uncertainty, and increased power play, every country seeks to counter the other in more ways than one. This has indeed given rise to countries like China adopting tactics which can coerce and alter dynamics to ...
In 2019, ASEAN leaders acknowledged the Indo-Pacific as a geopolitical imagination, but have reinforced their commitment to the ASEAN-centered regional architecture. The ASEAN stance was manifested through a document ‘ASEAN Outlook on the I...
