The recent visit to Southeast Asia in December by the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, marks the first official visit to the region by a high-ranking diplomat since President Joe Biden took office early this year. His maiden tour bega...
Hypersonic missiles are the new trending term on missile technology. Deemed to be five times faster than the speed of sound. They offer advantages in terms of speed to target, manoeuvrability and survivability to reach hard and well-defende...
Afghanistan has become a classic case of what all could grow wrong in a nation that becomes the playground for great power politics. Ever since the invasion of one great power and the other, from USSR to the USA, Afghanistan has not known w...
Chinese president Xi Jinping has not left the country for 21 months now. Xi’s last visit outside the country was in Mayanmar on 17th January 2020, it was just days before ordering the lockdown of Wuhan. There have been growing concerns rega...
The world encountered deepening of ties between Japan and Taiwan with the opening of 7th Japan- Taiwan Exchange Summit held in Kobe city in November. This year’s summit will be engraved in the history of Japan – Taiwan relations. Both count...
As the COP came to an end, there have been divergent views on what the conference achieved. The situation of climate change has been becoming alarming day by day with scientists around the world warning about rising climate and the frequenc...
Under the Interim National Security Strategic Guidance document released by Whitehouse in April 2021 there are few priority areas which have been highlighted. There are five major pillars: ‘rising nationalism, challenges to democracy, US gr...
The developments in South China Sea have been a matter of concern for all the littoral countries in its periphery as well as the dialogue partners. This year has been very eventful in the context of tensions between US and China in the cont...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership was a massive trade agreement that was signed by 12 Pacific Rim countries, which included the US. TPP was attacked by both parties in the US. Many experts praised its economic benefits, but others were critical...
European Union, the only supranational organization is a post-cold war creation. It is a political and economic union comprising of 27 member states-Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Ge...
As the world slowly coming with the terms of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, many observers said that the unexpected US debacle on Afghan soil gathers semblance of its pack up from Saigon, Vietnam. The scathing rupture in US credibilit...
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...
