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One-Belt One-Road: A ride through the well connected region
The One-Belt One-Road initiative has significantly come up with the manifold opportunities enabling China to connect with the rest of the region through the...
The shocking truth about MH370
In early March 2014, the world was captivated in a way never seen before by the news of a missing Malaysian Airlines flight from...
The New Silk Road: Plan for Chinese Hegemony
The newly inaugurated “One Belt, One Road” initiative had its first trip with a shipment arriving in Tehran from China . China has undertaken...
The new North Korean satellite
On February 7, 2016 (Juche 105), the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un orbited an earth observation satellite called Kwangmyonsong-4. This launch is part...
Japan: Symptom of a Larger Financial Crisis?
Conventional wisdom dictates that money should be deposited in a bank rather than under a mattress. Aside from the security motives, the bank typically...
The global power shift and the Role of Asian Players
The world of globalization has brought enormous veiled opportunities and challenges for the each of the developed, developing and under developed nation in the...
“Pivot to the East” and Russia’s Southeast Asia Gambit
Throughout 2015, the Russian Federation engaged in a variety of initiatives in a region that often falls outside of the conventional analysis of Russia's...
Islamic State’s appeal in Malaysia
With the recent revelations that a youth was picked up and arrested on the way to a suicide bombing, hundreds of arrests of suspected...
The geopolitics of North Korea’s nuclear capacity
According to many nuclear experts, the detonation of a hydrogen bomb in the Punggye-ri site, in Kim Jong-Un’s North Korea is not a realistic...
The North Korean nuclear issue
In 1980, on the eve of the final decline of the Soviet-style centralized economies, North Korea - officially called the Democratic People’s Republic of...