Afghan Peace Process The long read: What next for the US–Taliban ‘peace deal’? April 8, 2020 0 Image credit: Afghanistan by i postcross/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Raghav Sharma. My darling, you are just like America! You are guilty, I…
China China and the Strategic Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic April 7, 2020 0 Image Credit: COVID-19 by Silvision/Flickr, License: CC BY-ND 2.0. Written by Neil Munro. The COVID-19 Pandemic has strategic implications with which military planners, political leaders,…
Art Small state relations: Bhutan and Bangladesh March 30, 2020 1 Image credit: Talakha Goemba by Nitasha Kaul Written by Nitasha Kaul and Sangay Khandu. Inter-state rivalries between bigger states like India and China or India…
Asia A bright future for China’s cashless payment systems in Indonesia March 26, 2020 0 Image Credit: Support Alipay and WeChat Pay by N509FZ/ Wikimedia Commons, Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International Written by Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat. There has been much…
Belt and Road Initiative China manoeuvres to protect its interests while keeping its hands clean March 26, 2020 0 Image credit: Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptors by Robert Sullivan/Flickr; licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Written by James M. Dorsey. The question is not if, but…
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…
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,…
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…