Twists and Turns in US -China Trade War
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s stopover at Beijing on 08 October may not have been a pleasant experience, more so in the backdrop...
The talks held in September 2018 between Kim Jong-Un and Moon Jae-In
In less than one year three meetings have been held between the North Korean Leader and the South Korean President, Moon Jae-In.
In the initial...
China’s Imprint underneath the Pyongyang Joint Declaration
On September 18, the leaders of two Koreas met each other in Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK. The world media focused on the...
Middle Eastern Black Swans dot China’s Belt and Road
If any one part of the world has forced China to throw its long-standing foreign and defense policy principles out the window and increasingly...
A de facto alliance exists between China and Russia
From mid-August to September 15, 2018, Chinese troops went to Russia to participate in the "Vostok-2018" strategic military exercise, which was the largest strategic...
Keep Calm and Carry On? A Japanese Perspective on A Post-Liberal World
The mainstream Western leaders and intellectuals are increasingly preoccupied with the so-called “crisis of the liberal international order.” Western media outlets daily broadcast apocalyptic...
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and denuclearization talks
The issue of denuclearization of the whole Korean peninsula is currently at the core of the debate between North Korea, South Korea, the United...
China struggles with Belt and Road pushback
China, in an implicit recognition that at least some of its Belt and Road-related projects risk trapping target countries in debt or fail to...
The Pot Calls Out the Kettle: US’s most recent denouncement of China
As many an observer of International Politics may have noted, it is not uncommon for Nation States to take steps that can only be...
Turkic Muslims: China and the Muslim world’s Achilles Heel
A list of 26 predominantly Muslim countries considered sensitive by China reflects Chinese concerns that they could reinforce religious sentiment among the People’s Republic’s...