Category: Geopolitics

Chinese President Xi Jinping met Philippines President Duterte, forging bilateral ties that resulted in the signing of 29 bilateral agreements. After President Rodrigo Duterte formally assumed the office on June 30, 2016, the US-Philippine relations began to sour. The drift between the Duterte and Obama relationship…

The new “self-determination” initiative launched by the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) would assert the supremacy of Switzerland’s constitution over international treaties, which would have to be renegotiated or cancelled if they clashed with domestic referendum results. Switzerland …

The US-South Korean Joint Military Exercise “Foal Eagle” is being reorganized a bit to keep it at a level that will not be harmful to diplomacy said Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis. A military exercise or war game is the employment of military resources in training for military operations…

China is looking to unseat US influence on the Philippines as President Xi landed in Manila just hours after the APEC Summit concluded in Papua New Guinea. The relationship between the United States and the Philippines has historically been strong and has been described as a Special Relationship…

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s visit to Tehran comes amidst the twin tensions between the countries over UK dual national, Nazanin Ratcliffe who is detained in Iran, and the war in Yemen. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, travelled to Iran on 17 March 2016…

A Russian company whose accountant was charged by federal prosecutors for attempting to meddle in U.S. elections sued Facebook Inc on Tuesday, claiming it is a legitimate news outlet and its Facebook account should be restored. Facebook, a social media and social networking site, was launched by Mark Zuckerberg…

Russian President Vladimir Putin is in the Turkish city of Istanbul to mark the completion of the offshore part of TurkStream, a major pipeline project under the Black Sea that will transport natural gas from Russia to Europe through Turkey. TurkStream, or Turkish Stream, is a natural gas pipeline…

Saudi Arabia has lent $1bn to Pakistan to help boost its liquid foreign currency reserves, giving Islamabad some breathing space during protracted bailout discussions with the IMF. The bilateral relations between the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are historically…

A Turkish court jailed an Istanbul academic following raids on professors and activists deemed to have links to a prominent financier of civil society activities who has been imprisoned for the past year. A wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Turkey began on 28 May 2013, initially to contest the urban..

The Trump administration is preparing to add Venezuela to the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism in what would be a dramatic escalation against the socialist government of Nicolás Maduro. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is located in northwest South America. In 2017, the UN estimated..