Japan has approved the biggest trade deal in the world in June 2021. The agreement, which is called the RCEP, will take effect in January 2022.RCEP is a free trade agreement between the US, China, Japan, and South Korea. It will create a ma...
Islamic militants and terror outbreaks have increased in the past decade. For instance, terrorist outbreaks began in north-east Nigeria in 2009, three years later in northern Mali. In addition, central Niger and Burkina Faso have also witne...
Western Africa compasses of 17 countries namely Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d’ Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo, it covers the area of about 8 ...
There are three Sakhalin projects which are operational and currently in the production phase, called Sakhalin I and Sakhalin II, and Sakhalin III, Sakhalin-4, a collection of offshore and onshore fields licensed to Rosneft SMNG, was origin...
Since June 2021, China has become more aggressive towards Taiwan. China sent twenty-eight warplanes into the Taiwanese airspace in June. Other than sending planes, China conducted assault drills in southwestern and southeastern waters near ...
Economic Community of West African States was formulated through a treaty signed in Lagos, Nigeria on 28th May 1975. It is a 15-member regional group comprising of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d’ Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea B...
Vietnam has been widely acknowledged and praised for its handling on COVID-19 pandemic. During the first wave of the pandemic, Vietnam had an extremely low mortality rate and the government was successful in handling the community spread of...
On 13 July 2021, the Japanese Ministry of Defence released the latest edition of its annual white paper, Defence of Japan 2021. The document describes a range of issues regarding Japan's security including China's growing military capabilit...
In the mid of 2019, the publication by Wall Street Journal proclaimed that China and Cambodia have signed a secret military agreement. Since then, there has been a lot of speculation about Cambodia's relationship with China and its future p...
The US-South Korea relations go back a long way. In 1882, both countries (America and Joseon Korea) signed the Treaty of Peace, Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, continuing until 1905. At the end of World War II, the Korean peninsula was div...
With the global attention shifting towards the East from the West boasting on the Indo-Pacific by altering the Euro-Atlantic worldview, India and China have become ocean-oriented and increasingly gathering resources to outcompete others to ...
It is noon in Kabul, and smoke is coming out of the US Embassy as documents and equipment are being destroyed while a Chinook helicopter is hovering above the embassy to evacuate the diplomats and other staff. History is being repeated. The...
