Category: Geopolitics

Victorian government’s decision to sign up to China’s controversial Belt and Road Initiative without consulting commonwealth has irked Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also known as the One Belt One Road (OBOR) or the Silk Road Economic…

An informal agreement to reduce hostilities between Saudi-led coalition forces and rebels in and around Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeida has taken hold. Yemen, one of the world’s poorest countries in the world, has been devastated by the war between forces loyal to the…

With U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin staying away from Papua New Guinea, Xi Jinping is by far the most prominent among 21 leaders attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting that starts this week. Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation…

Iran has continued to implement the main nuclear restrictions set by its 2015 deal with major powers even as the United States re-imposed sanctions against Teheran, according to IAEA report published this week. Iran’s current nuclear program involves several research sites, two uranium mines, a research reactor…

Amid outrage over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and growing international concern over the harm caused to civilians in the Yemen civil war, the United States decided to stop ‘inflight refuelling’ of Saudi-led coalition jets in Yemen. The gesture seems unlikely to significantly affect the crisis..

North Korea cancelled nuclear talks between US Secretary, Mike Pompeo and North Korean General Kim Yong-chol after US refusal to offer sanctions relief. The political and diplomatic relations between North Korea and the United States have been historically hostile, developing primarily during the Korean War..

Myanmar officials said on Sunday the country was ready to receive more than 2,000 Rohingya Muslims sheltering in Bangladesh on Nov. 15, the first group from 5,000 people to be moved under a deal between the neighbours struck last month. The Rohingya are an ethnic Muslim minority group..

US weapons sales to foreign governments rose by 33 per cent this year, reflecting the Trump administration’s efforts to encourage allies into paying more for their own defences. The looming threats of Iran, China and Russia, alongside efforts to boost domestic arms manufacturers have led to an…

The United Nations says there are now 3 million refugees and migrants from Venezuela. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is located in northwest South America. In 2017, the UN estimated that the country is home to over 31 million people. The country stretches across over 900,000 square kilometres…

Indo Chinese rivalry may have caused dissonance in Sri Lankan politics after President Sirisena replaced Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe by Mahinda Rajapaksa, a Chinese protégé. On 26th October 2018, Sri Lankan President Maithripala..