Time for middle power global leadership?
An alliance of middle powers might be the best bet for new global leadership, as both the US and China have lost credibility through the COVID-19 pandemic, but will they step up? The West has...
Category: Opinion
The Sino-Russian Alliance and What it Means for Europe
Dating back to the 1800s, it is well established that Russia and China have had a long and complex relationship. Since the 1950s to the demise of the Soviet Union, their relations were characterized...
India–US Naval Exercise Amid Sino-Indian standoff
India and the USA recently concluded a PASSEX (Passing exercise) near Andaman and Nicobar Island. This exercise at the Indian Ocean happens at the time of India-China standoff at eastern Ladakh. This article will...
Commonwealth of Independent States: Rise and Failure
Introduction Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was an initiative of the post-Soviet Russian state to have a regional organization with the members as states in the former Soviet Union (FSU). It was a platform...
Resurgence of a powerful QUAD to counter an Asian giant
Since the start of the 21st century, there has been a growing fear of an ambitious power like China developing its strategic as well as economic influence in the Asian continent and all the...
COVID-19 and the Cracks in the Chinese model
Recently the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang pledged stronger financial support to businesses to protect smaller companies and labour-intensive enterprises to shore up China’s foreign trade and foreign investment amid the global economic downturn. This...
India and Latin America: The Forgotten Land
History will never pass over its memory of the Cuban missile crisis, a cold war military-nuclear standoff between the former USSR and the U.S., which threatened to convert the cold war into a full-fledged...
GCC and Israel: Backdoor diplomacy facing an annexation threat
Though GCC as an organisation has hardly been involved in the Israel Palestine issue, the Gulf states have often offered political and economic support for pro-Palestine actors and occasionally tried their hand at mediation....
Tourism in the post-COVID-19 world
“Agar firdaus bar ru – ye zamin ast, Hamin ast o hamin ast o hamin ast” – Amir Khusro On his deathbed, the late king Jehangir, when asked about his cherished desire, is purportedly...
East Turkistan – A New Bangladesh?
The name Turkistan is of Persian origin. This region, dating back to the 5th century encompasses what is now Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and East Turkistan (also known as Xinjiang). Numerous Turkic states...
