The global fertiliser prices hit all-time highs in the spring of 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February. The Russia-Ukraine conflict exacerbated an already precarious global supply scenario that began in 2020 with COVID-19-...
The war in Ukraine has flared for over a year and has caused great suffering to human life and international peace. On 24th February 2022, Vladimir Putin launched a “special military operation” against Ukraine from the north, south, and eas...
New Delhi held a rare strategic meeting (March 2) with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) focusing on regional security challenges in a step that might have global consequences. According to reports, the dialogue occurred in earl...
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...
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...
The annual G20 summit is scheduled to take place on November 15 and 16, 2022. The summit this year will be a little different as both Russia and Ukraine are expected to attend. But before we get into the details, it's crucial to understand ...
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...
The G20 Foreign Minister’s Meeting (FMM) held on 7-8 July 2002 was marked by the theme “Building a more peaceful, stable, and prosperous world together”. The meeting was divided into two sessions. The first session held was regarding streng...
With the aim to promote peace, security, development and cooperation, BRIC was coined in 2001 by Roopa Purushotaman who was a Research Assistant in Jim O’ Neill’s publication (Building Better Global Economic BRICs) for Goldman Sachs. It was...
The Belt and Road initiative, formerly known as “One Belt, One Road”, is also known as the New Silk Road project. it has over 100 participant nations and is a development plan that intends to connect China to Europe.
