Category: Geopolitics

Ahead of the 2+2 Summit in New Delhi, Pompeo and Mattis will arrive in New Delhi to back President Trump’s unpolished India policy. President Donald Trump’s tendency to mock Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s accent in English has also left a bitter taste. India-U.S. bilateral relations have developed into..

Brussel’s chief Negotiator “strongly” opposes key parts of PM May’s proposals for a future trade deal. London is due to leave the EU by March 2019, and will lose access to the common market if a trade deal isn’t agreed by then. It was on June 23rd, 2016 that Britain narrowly voted to leave the…

China’s ambitious multi-nation project is facing a massive hurdle as some countries are being buried under Chinese debt. The “New Silk Road” envisions the construction of railways, roads and ports across the globe, with Beijing providing billions of dollars in loans to many countries. China has initiated a Twenty-First..

The US military says it is cancelling $300m (£230m) in aid to Pakistan over what it calls Islamabad’s failure to take action against militant groups. The United States began providing economic assistance along with military aid to Pakistan shortly after the country’s creation in 1947. In total, the United States obligated…

Malawi’s former president will be seeking another mandate to run the country, after her People´s Party’s (PP) chose her to lead it into next year’s national elections. Banda, who recently returned home after four years of self-imposed exile, was elected as PP’s presidential flagbearer on Thursday The Republic of Malawi, formerly..

Vice President Mike Pence will represent the President at the Asian leaders in Singapore and Papua New Guinea in November 2018. This is the first time since 2013 that a US president has not attended the semi-annual US-ASEAN Summit. The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a regional intergovernmental..

Washington ends its contributions to Palestinian refugee agency, calling it “irredeemably flawed”. The US was the single largest contributor to the UNRWA, providing $368 million annually. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA) was established after the 1948 Arab-Israel conflict..

Beijing has detained close to a million Uighurs, an ethnic Muslim population of China’s Western Xinjiang Province. US lawmakers are calling for sanctions after a UN report highlights the massive human rights violation in Xinjiang. The Uyghurs are predominantly Muslims and have regard themselves as culturally and ethnically..

Moscow has decided to halt discussions of a United Nations Security Council report on North Korea, due to concern over parts of it being leaked before publication. Russia’s UN envoy has also demanded a few amendments to be made to the report. North Korea and Russia (called the Soviet Union at the time) were close…

The Republic of Congo’s president will seek Chinese support for its negotiations with the International Monetary Fund about a bailout. Congo owes its creditors in excess of $ 9.14 billion. The Republic of the Congo is a Francophone country in central Africa with a population of 5 million people and a per capita income of…