The Kafkaesque world of Afghanistan
While the world’s largest democracy was celebrating its 75 glorious years of existence, an ode to its magnanimous struggle against an empire on which the sun never sets, not far from New Delhi, an...
Category: Asia
US- South Korea conducts the largest joint military exercise after 2017
Key highlights of the drill Two allies’ biggest joint drill since 2017. First biggest drill of US-ROK in the region after the Russian invasion and Pelosi’s visit. Aimed to normalise the joint exercises to...
The uncertainty in Russia-Central Asia energy relations since the dissolution of USSR: The Chinese factor
Introduction Because of global and local causes, the Central Asian energy sector has been facing developments and challenges. Central Asia, which was formerly the sole domain of Tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia, has evolved...
Did India just support Argentina’s claim on the Falkland Islands?
Indian External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar, who was on a three-nation trip, visited Argentina from August 25 to 26 at the request of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade, and Worship Cafiero,...
Gauging the India-China relationship in the long term
If there is one relationship in Indian diplomacy that has kept India on tenterhooks it is the Indo-China relationship. Starting from the phrase “Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai” during the Nehru-Zhou Enlai era, the current...
Japan set to become one of the world’s biggest defence spenders amid China-Taiwan tensions
Japan is set to approve what could be its biggest increase in defence outlays since the end of the war, putting it on a path to becoming one of the world’s top military spenders....
5 Megaprojects in China’s $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan
China is pumping trillions of yuan into infrastructure investment, stimulus that could benefit the world’s second-largest economy well beyond this year’s gloom of Covid lockdowns and property market turmoil. Beijing is making 6.8 trillion yuan (about...
Turkmenistan’s overview of Politics, Social infrastructure and Economic relations
Introduction Almost overnight the countries of Central Asia started getting attention from politicians, academicians and the media due to the collapse of the Soviet State in 1991. The collapse affected the countries profoundly. Among...
The limitations of the Chinese in the Indian Ocean Region against India
As the end of the first quarter of the 21st-century approaches, the Indo-Pacific emerged as the new analytical framework for complex manoeuvres in global maritime Asia designed to preserve the liberal international order in...
Past, Present, and Future of China – Taiwan Issue: Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis
Having repeatedly sent fighter jets and conducted military drills towards its estranged sister, thanks to Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, Beijing and U.S. have brought the crisis to a new peak which embroiled an economic...
