East Asia

The Slippery Slope of Sino-US Trade War

Change is the only constant. After a struggle for supremacy in geopolitical and geo-economical spheres, now technological realms have also been contested among superpowers....

Harsh Turkish condemnation of Xinjiang cracks Muslim wall of silence

In perhaps the most significant condemnation to date of China’s brutal crackdown on Turkic Muslims in its north-western province of Xinjiang. Turkey’s foreign ministry...

China, Europe and the G-Zero world

What does it mean to live in a world without global leadership? Where is the European Union heading? What impact will Trump’s “America first”...

Challenges and prospects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

In the present globalized world, the economic corridors have become an important tool for regional cooperation and development. The economic corridor highlights the integration...

Japan and emerging Indo-Pacific

On January 8-10, 2019, the international forum Raisina Dialogue, dedicated to the Indo-Pacific region issues, was held in New Delhi. Representatives from China, Russia,...

Players’ Skewed Maps complicate Eurasia’s 21st Century Great Game

The United States and China are playing Eurasia’s 21st century Great Game from different but equally skewed maps. While the US map appears to...

40 Years of US-China Relations

Forty years after the United States and China established diplomatic relations in January 1979 the anniversary is a good reason to reflect on the...

Shaping the new world order: The battle for human rights

China is leading the charge in a bid to undermine accepted concepts of human rights accountability and justice. The Chinese effort backed by autocrats elsewhere...

Project of the century: How the Belt and Road initiative will impact the Eurasian region

In 2013, China announced the creation of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the Maritime Silk Road of the 21st century – this initiative...

Decoding Pentagon Report on China January 2019

Amidst sequential escalation of US- China 'Heated cold war', Pentagon has released a new report on 16 January 2019, airing US concerns about China’s...

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