More: Geopolitics
The Russian strategy in the Middle East
The Russian Federation has already won the war in Syria and is therefore the hegemonic power throughout the Middle East. Despite tensions at the...
India’s Naval Modernization: Implications for Indo-Pacific and South Asian Region
India has instituted the strategy of Military modernization of its forces to achieve the geo-strategic objectives. In this regard India Navy is considered as...
Commercial terms call into question China’s win-win Belt and Road initiative
In a rare challenging of Chinese commercial terms that underlie the country's ambitious Belt and Road initiative, Pakistan and Nepal have withdrawn from two...
China, USA and North Korea
On October 21 last, the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China began their joint exercises in the Sea of Okhotsk, the most...
Transition in the Middle East: Transition to what?
Transition is the name of the game in the Middle East and North Africa. The question is transition to what? Dominating...
Beyond the normal diplomacy between China and Vietnam
Authors: Wang Li & Do Quynh Anh To most scholars who are obsessed with the realist doctrines, China and Vietnam can’t maintain mutually trusted...
The Lebanese crisis
On November 4 last, during the great "purge" within the Saudi elite, the Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, resigned claiming that his life was...
Shale growth, Geopolitical tensions and Re-balancing
It has been a wild ride for oil prices. November 4th, 2017, prime minister of Lebanon Mr. Hariri resigns, at night missiles from rebel...
Behind the arrangement of “state visit plus” for President Trump in China
Authors: Wang Li & Yang Yi-zhong* According to a conventional argument, with no heir apparent and his power firmly consolidated, Chinese President Xi Jinping...
The Saudi Arabian issue
The 32-year old Prince Muhammad bin Salman, who is the heir to Saudi Arabia’s throne, wants at first "to eradicate the roots of Islamic...