AAGC Vision Document - Origin and Institutions behind its Creation? Asia-Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC) supported by Japan and India was unveiled on 24th May, 2017 during the 52nd Annual Meeting of the African Development Bank (AfD....
“Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international dispute....
Tags : Constitution , Japan , self-defence , Article 9 Dilemma , Revision of Japanese , Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Furthering China’s Grand Strategy Leaders from almost 30 countries gathered in Beijing this week to endorse President Xi Jinping’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ (OBOR) initiative, now called ‘Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The p....
Tags : Article , China , POK , OBOR , China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Located about 900 km east of Madagascar, Mauritius is the ‘Little India’ of the southwest Indian Ocean. While the vast majority of ethnically heterogeneous nations have struggled to form successful democracies, Mauritius has not. Since independen....
Tags : Mauritius , colony , Indian Diaspora
Iran's just concluded 12th Presidential election attest the stability of the Iranian system. The election witnessed high voter turn-out of above 73 percent. Rouhani won 57 percent or 23,549,616 votes out of total of 40 million votes cast. He improved....
Tags : INSTC , Chabahar Port , Iran , Presidential elections , Rouhani , PM Modi , Tehran , International North-South Transit Corridor
The upcoming 19th Congress of the nearly 88-million strong Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is important not only for Xi Jinping and China, but potentially for China’s neighbours and the world. It will consolidate the course on which China is set. ....
Tags : China , Chinese Communist Party
Kazakhstan has assumed non-permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the tenure of 2017-18. It is the first Central Asian Republic (CAR) to join this supreme body. Kazakhstan is a young nation that gained independence i....
Tags : Central Asia , Kazakhstan , UNSC , Emerging Player , Eurasian Economic Union
“We realise that our efforts to bring economic prosperity to our people need to be accompanied by steps to secure them. Prime Minister and I have, therefore, agreed to deepen our defence and security engagement to advance our common interests. T....
Tags : security cooperation , South China Sea , Indo-Vietnam relations , Indo-Vietnam defence cooperation , Ho Chi Minh , Modi visit to Vietnam , Indian military
In March, at least four hundred United States (US) troops were deployed to Syria without congressional approval.i The stated US objective is to join the offensive against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Raqqa. There are unofficia....
Tags : US , ISIS , Syria , United States Strategy in Syria , post ISIS , Central Intelligence Agency , Obama , Vietnam , Iraq and Afghanistan
April 29th, 2017 ushered in hundred days of Donald Trump’s presidency. Many media outlets have examined the significance of his presidency for the United States of America (USA), and also, for the country’s foreign policy. It is but natural that ....
Tags : Donald Trump , Africa , Trump , Trump's 100 Days , US Policies; US-Africa , United States of America , Quartz Africa , USAID