On 15 April 2023, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the Vietnamese PM Phan Minh Chinh and other high-ranking government officials in Vietnam thanking him for the decade-long success of the US-Vietnam Comprehensive Partnership. H...
New Zealand is contemplating the possibility of joining the AUKUS security pact. However, they will only participate in non-nuclear activities. Andrew Little, the Defence Minister of New Zealand, has expressed interest in becoming the fourt...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization's rotating chairmanship was handed over to India last year in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. India will be presiding over the SCO grouping till September 2023. From being an observer state in 2005 to full membe...
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...
After World War II, the world was characterized as bipolar with the presence of the United States and the then-USSR. But after the Cold War, the United States became the only superpower or hegemon, and the world became unipolar. However, si...
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 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 ...
Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are dominating the battlefields in combat in the twenty-first century. The current confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, which involved the deployment of drones, has caused both nations to recon...
The visit of Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, to Taiwan around the first week of August has negatively altered several aspects of the relationship between the United States and China. The visit was deemed to be ...
In September 2021, China applied to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement among 11 countries. It was the country's first attempt to join a major trade pact since the US exited the project four years earlier. Although Ch...
India re-established its presence in Afghanistan after sending a "technical team" of officials and reopening its Embassy in Kabul after nearly ten months, in the backdrop of a severe earthquake that devastated parts of Paktika and Khost pro...
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...
