Asia Could the Kartarpur corridor herald a Ladakh corridor for the Baltis? March 25, 2020 1 Image Credit: Bridge over Indus, Ladakh by caffeineAM/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Zainab Akhter. The opening of the Kartarpur corridor on the eve of the…
Belt and Road Initiative China’s partnership diplomacy and the successful implementation of the BRI March 25, 2020 0 Image credit: Cairo by Simona Scolari/Flickr; licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Mordechai Chaziza. In recent years, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has significantly…
Asia Modi’s muddle and India’s existential crisis March 24, 2020 0 Image Credit: Narendra Modi at a BJP rally by Al Jazeera English /Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Anam Fatima. With the wisdom of hindsight, the developments in…
Belt and Road Initiative China’s partnership diplomacy in the Middle East March 24, 2020 0 Image credit: COP21_151208c-0651 by Mark Dixon/Flickr; licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Degang Sun. Two decades into the twenty-first century, we can see how the…
Asia Pakistan and the foreign remittance sector March 23, 2020 0 Image credit: Currency Exchange by Images Money /Flickr; licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Arhama Siddiqa. Remittances make up around 86 per cent of the secondary income balance of…
Business and Politics Sharp decline in US imports from China as Mexico becomes #1 trading partner in 2019 March 23, 2020 0 Image credit: Bandera de México by Christian Frausto Bernal/Flickr; licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Enrique Dussel Peters. At the end of January of 2020,…
Article 370 Kashmir’s nakba March 20, 2020 0 Image Credit: Andrea Schieber/Dal (lake) and the Shikaras – Srinagar, Kashmir, India/ Flickr; Licence: CC BY- NC- ND-2.0. Written by Seema Kazi. On 5 August 2019, the…
Belt and Road Initiative China’s involvement in the Levant: It’s the economy after all March 20, 2020 0 Image credit: Suez Canal (2007-06-345) by Vyacheslav Argenberg/Flickr; licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Yoram Evron. The Levant – a sub-region of the Middle East consisting…
Asia How Asia perceives China in the context of BRI: Evidence from an Asian poll March 19, 2020 0 Image Credit: Secretary-General Addresses Belt and Road Initiative Forum, Beijing by United Nations Photo/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 By Zhenqing Zheng. Following the end of…
Belt and Road Initiative Exploring China’s strategic intentions in Central, West and South Asia March 18, 2020 0 Image credit: P1020506 by Will Clayton/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Anoush Ehteshami. Since the early 2000s, the great, major and regional powers alike…