The Chinese Foreign Ministry unveiled its paper on a "Global Security Initiative" on February 21, 2023, in a white paper outlining the country's suggested response to problems relating to conventional and non-conventional security difficult...
China has steadily established itself as an economic powerhouse and military titan, as the years have progressed, leading to the possibility of a change in the status quo of international relations, the likes of which had previously been se...
Indo-Pacific region has many multilateral economic organisations which are seen as organisations which can provide a hope for regional economic integration. Indo-Pacific Economic Framework is different as it is in evolutionary phase. This a...
Vanuatu is a nation situated in the southwestern region of the Pacific Ocean, comprising a group of 13 primary islands and numerous smaller ones. It is approximately 500 miles (800 km) to the west of Fiji and 1,100 miles (1,770 km) east of ...
India’s approach towards the island nations of the Pacific Ocean is gradually changing. This is mainly attributed to the shift of the geopolitical and geo-economic centre to the Indo-Pacific region. The strategic importance of the region ha...
Pakistan's economic situation will deepen in the following months as structural weaknesses and policy uncertainties boost recessionary risks, exacerbating political insecurity and security concerns. Pakistan's enormous foreign debt has gene...
ASEAN leaders have in-principle agreed to admit Timor-Leste. But this admission is conditioned upon Timor-Leste successfully fulfilling a criteria-based roadmap. This objective roadmap has not yet been drafted, let alone put up for adoption...
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 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...
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...
The 15th and 16th of September 2022 marked the 22nd annual summit of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The first physical meeting since the pandemic, this meeting brought ...
The suspicions of Hambantota port as a site of a potential threat from China were tested when a Chinese survey vessel was supposed to dock at the port. Yuan Wang 5, a research vessel with missile and satellite tracking capabilities, was due...
