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China manoeuvres to protect its interests while keeping its hands clean
The question is not if, but when the long-standing American defence umbrella in the Gulf, the world’s most militarised and volatile region, will be...
Washington- Beijing Moves: Conflict of Choices?
At the beginning of the 21st century, the relationship
between US and China have transformed rapidly as the latter surpassed the
former in being leader in...
BRI to Health Silk Route: How COVID-19 is Changing Global Strategic Equations?
The
beginning of 2020 brought a wild card entry into global strategic equations in
the form of Coronavirus Pandemic, with Wuhan being the initial epicentre in...
The Thucydides’ Trap: the Avoidable Destiny Between the US and China
The controversial “Thucydides trap” argument has
sparked a heated debate since 2013, when President Xi Jinping of China told a cluster of western guests: “We...
Geopolitical Attitude to Recent Iran-USA Relations
The United
States-Islamic Republic of Iran relationship enters a new chapter by killing Qassem
Soleimani with the United States, and according to the prominent role-playing of
two...
Post-Soleimani, Russia’s Role Will Grow in Iran’s Geopolitical Thinking
As the emotional tide following the January killing of Quds Force
commander Qassem Soleimani ebbs, we have a clearer perspective on what the
event meant and...
Strategic Partnership, Arctic-Style: How Russia and China Play the Game
Russian-Chinese technical-military cooperation in the 1990s started
when the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) initiated large-scale
rearmament based on Russian technologies. About 80% of Russian armaments...
Eastern Mediterranean: A microcosm of regional and global battles
The Eastern Mediterranean has become a flash-point for the meshing of
geopolitics, the struggle for regional hegemony, battles for control of
resources, religious soft power rivalry,...
The Other Frontline: South Asia in the emerging great power competition
The collapse of the Soviet Union sealed the
fate of the realist-bipolar world order and the United States of America (USA) –
the leader of the...
Kartarpur Corridor: Sikh Soft Power
Ever
since the inauguration of the Kartarpur Corridor, three months ago, in November
2019, it has drawn the attention of media and strategic analysts in South...