On December 7, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for a three-day visit after clinching a third term as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, chairman of the Central Military Commission, and effecti...
The year 2021 marked two decades since the term "BRICS" was first used by former Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill in the early 2000s to refer to the four rapidly developing nations that appeared most likely to start catching up to the We...
The People's Republic of China's economic ties with Africa up to the late 1970s were motivated by ideological imperatives but the political elite in China now sees the continent's economic ties as a way to advance the nation's development o...
Even at times of high global uncertainty, Bangladesh has a good track record of growth and development. Over the last two decades, rapid economic growth has been supported by a robust demographic dividend, strong ready-made garment (RMG) ex...
The People's Republic of China did not participate in any discussion on the international trade in weapons until the beginning of the twenty-first century. However, today a number of Chinese arms companies, such as the Aviation Industry Cor...
Climate change will have the greatest impact on emerging countries, with impoverished populations being especially poorly struck and unable to adapt sufficiently. There is a chance for developing nations to take a complementary strategy, st...
Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe unveiled a strategic framework for a free and open Indo-Pacific in 2016 which since 2017 has been propagated as the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy. With Southeast Asia being at the heart...
Pakistan, a South Asian country, is experiencing not just a political crisis but also military, environmental, economic, and foreign policy crises. The worst flood to ever hit the nation struck in 2022, killing thousands of people. On the e...
The COP27 marks the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 30 years ago at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, and the Paris Agreement that was agreed upon seven years ago at COP21. The 'Conference of the Parties...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), an international grouping of eight member states (China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan), four observer states (Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran, and Mongol...
On August 18, 2022, Union Minister of Ports, Shipping, and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal left for Iran on a four-day visit. He evaluated the first phase of the Chabahar port's development, connected with the top officials from Central Asian ...
The Invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, took many by surprise. Russia originating from this invasion is part of an effort to prevent the expansion of power carried out by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Russia later sta...
