The latest (May 16) issue of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s leading theoretical fortnightly magazine ‘Qiu Shi’ (Seeking Truth) included a lengthy article by Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang. In it Qin Gang quite expli....
The unprecedented third term that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won during the second round of presidential elections has attracted considerable media attention in India and Europe. Before the first round of elections held on 14 May, opinion....
While wanting US technological and security support to facilitate its rise, India does not acknowledge reciprocal obligations, even on a common challenge like China. Writing in the US journal Foreign Affairs (‘America’s bad bet on India’), A....
(The following is the transcript of presentation made during an International Webinar on “Road to Peace: Prospects for the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis” organised by China Institute of International Studies, Beijing on 26 May 2023) ....
Timidity has given way to self-confidence, lassitude to vigour, and confusion to clarity that India’s actions, governed by its civilizational values, will be taken independently and not under anyone’s pressure. As a result of the Narendra Modi....
As the world’s geopolitics violently swings, contending parties are jostling for their own space in this geostrategic contestation. In this matrix of great power game, the South Pacific islands north of Australia have assumed sudden importance. For....
When the G-7 leaders were meeting in Hiroshima with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida as the host, Chinese President Xi Jinping was hosting the leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in a two-day China-Central ....
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Türkiye’s presidential and parliamentary election was held on 14 May 2023 in the backdrop of deep economic crisis and fallout of the devastating earthquake in February 2023. The outcome of the election could shape Türkiye’s role in the North At....
Italy is highly unlikely to renew its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) deal with China, which expires in March 2024.[1] The idea of Italy’s possible withdrawal from the initiative has been floating around since Meloni’s coalition won the national e....
At his maiden press conference as the new Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Maj-Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, on 23 April 2023 said that the “…Pakistan Army was a “national army” and that all politicians and parties....