Category: Geopolitics

After India, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has deported illegal Rohingyas immigrants to Bangladesh where they will become refugees. KSA is reversing their historic stance of standing by the persecuted Muslim Rohingyas for years at International level. The Rohingya are an ethnic Muslim minority group from Myanmar’s western Rakhine…

U.S. and Chinese negotiators held their first face-to-face talks since the world’s two largest economies agreed to a truce aimed at resolving their trade dispute. China’s most senior economic official made an unexpected appearance at talks with the US signalling Beijing’s eagerness to end a bruising…

Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kabore has pledged to further the development of ties with China. Kabore made the remarks while meeting with Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in the capital, Ouagadougou who is on an official visit to the country…

The finance minister of the Philippines has said that uncertainty in US economic policy was “making people nervous everywhere” and could harm global growth. The relationship between the United States and the Philippines has historically been strong and has been described as a…

An 18-Year-old Saudi Arabian woman, Rahaf Mohammed Al Qunun is held at the Bangkok airport. Rahaf had renounced Islam and fled her family while travelling in Kuwait. It is feared that she would be killed if she will be repatriated. Human rights in Saudi Arabia are intended to be…

A dozen Latin American nations including Canada are questioning Nicolas Maduro’s presidency in Venezuela as he is soon to begin his second term in power. These nations are urging him to hand over power as the only solution to restoring democracy in the country. Nicolas Maduro took office in 2013…

Israel is ready to move ahead with a multibillion-dollar project with Jordan to pipe water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea. The project was initiated in 2013 but its implementation was hampered by political tensions pertaining to the Israeli – Palestinian peace deal.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Iran to forfeit its plans for satellite launches that the United States says involve technology that could be used in intercontinental ballistic missiles. ICBMs usually involve sophisticated launch, re-entry and detonation system and…

The US ‘withdrawal’ from Syria might not mean the end of all its Syria-related operations where Israel is concerned, as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reaffirmed Washington’s ongoing commitment to Israel’s security. Israel and the US are staunch allies. Israel plays a key role in America’s…

The Chinese President, Xi Jinping asserted that Taiwan “must be unified, will be unified” with China as a rebuke to President Tsai Ing-wen’s earlier statement on how her people wanted to maintain self-rule and develop closer ties with the US. Taiwan, home to twenty-three million people, is…