Category: Geopolitics

Following Chad President Idriss Deby’s historic visit to Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to visit Chad to formally reestablish diplomatic ties between the two nations. Many in Chad are deeply opposed to Deby’s Israel rapprochement. The Republic of Chad is a landlocked…

India & Pakistan will build the Kartarpur corridor for Sikh Pilgrims to visit Holy Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara where the founder of Sikhism, spent his last few years. It is seen as symbol of peace between India and Pakistan. The Kartarpur Corridor is a proposed border corridor between India…

The US Justice Department unsealed charges accusing two Iranian men of hacking into American hospitals, universities, government agencies and the city of Atlanta, causing tens of millions of dollars in damages. The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is a federal executive department of the U.S. government…

Kim Jong Un is willing to let international inspectors visit the Yongbyon nuclear site, North Korea’s main nuclear facility. Pyongyang had previously allowed entry to the Nyongbyon site back in 2009, and since then has kept it under a cloud of secrecy. The political and diplomatic relations between North Korea and the United States have…

Ahead of the G20 summit in Argentina, Donald Trump has indicated that he would also slap a tariff on all remaining Chinese imports if negotiations with Xi Jinping fail to produce a US-China trade deal. America’s relations with China have witnessed ups and downs throughout its history. Since Richard Nixon’s historic…

According to a UN envoy, Israel’s new settlement in Hebron has been seen as a reaffirmation of Israel’s intent to remain permanently in occupied West Bank. Hebron, located in the occupied West Bank, is home to around 200,000 Palestinians and 800 settlers living under Israeli army protection in…

Negotiations on the implementation of a free trade zone agreement between Moscow and Seoul may start in 2019, according to South Korea’s ambassador in Moscow, Woo Yoon Keun. Modern relations between South Korea and Russia began on September 30, 1990. Immediately following Japan’s…

The agreement — “historic,” according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel — will cut Britain out of the European Union, marking the first time a nation has ever sought to depart the bloc. On June 23rd, 2016, Britain narrowly voted to leave the European Union, stunning Europe and the world in general. The EU employs a…

Russia said that it opened fire on and seized three Ukrainian naval vessels off the Crimean Peninsula, a move that could escalate tensions between the two countries. The Azov Sea is an important economic lifeline for Ukraine. It links the port city of Mariupol with the Black Sea and 80 per cent of the country’s…

President Ram Nath Kovind, the first Indian head of state to visit Australia, held talks with Prime minister Scott Morrison to step-up bilateral strategic ties. The visit comes four months after the release of a report by Australia’s top former diplomat Peter Verghese. Australia and India established diplomatic relations…