China has made it clear in its defence white papers and in many public statements by leaders that Tibet, Taiwan, Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands and South China Sea are inalienable parts of China and comprise its core areas which means these are non...
On April 17th 2020, at the PLA website, China designated two of the occupied islands groups- Spratlys and Paracels as its two new districts under the Sansha city administration located in Hainan. The two groups of islands have been named as...
The world, since the end of December 2019, has been battling the global pandemic COVID-19 which has left the global financial situation in a flux. Most of the world economies have been in a state of stagnation and looking for ways of recove...
China's Belt and Road Initiative(BRI/OBOR) was rolled out under Xi Jinping in establishing the country's "soft power' abroad. With more than 130 countries and international organizations signing cooperation agreements with China, the countr...
The theory of neorealism in International Relations deliberates and studies a state's behaviour through a systematic approach, influenced by six fundamental principles: anarchy, capability, distribution of power, polarity, national interest...
The deadliest suicide bombings in Sri Lanka’s recent history occurred one year ago on Easter Sunday shocking the island nation and the governments around the world. In the space of half an hour from 8:45 ...
Climate change and severe weather events is causing environmental catastrophe in the South Pacific region. The region as a whole has experienced innumerable changes in weather patterns that have posed fundamental threats to lives and l...
While the rest of the world teeters on the edge of freefall decline, China tells the world it is fine. Is it though? Just as the initial outbreak of the virus had been covered up, so also it would seem that China is now covering up the numb...
Even when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was forced to announce a state of emergency on April 7 to contain the spread of novel coronavirus from assuming the proportion of threat never seen in Japan’s history, Barak Kushner, Professor of East Asi...
South Asia’s largest nation, India, a regional superpower gradually moving towards being a world power is already pushing for greater maritime security engagement, with its southern island neighbors Sri Lanka and the Maldives under its “Nei...
As citizens around the world are advised to stay indoors to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, the North Korean government seems to be taking a different approach towards social distancing. The month of March, 2020 saw an alarming...
China has blocked a proposed meeting in the United Nations Security Council to discuss on the new coronavirus disease (Covid-19). It argued that Covid-19 crisis is not linked to global security. But President Donald Trump recently had a wor...
