Category: Geopolitics

Washington has no plans to “suspend any major military exercises on the Korean Peninsula” amidst rising tensions with North Korea. The relationship between the US and North Korea has always been fractious. The nation, which has isolated itself from the rest of the world, shares…

Russia will in next month hold the biggest war games since the Cold War era, with almost 300,000 troops and 1,000 aircraft, the defense minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday. A military exercise or a war game serves the purpose of ensuring the combat readiness of the deployable forces prior to deployment from home base…

The Colombian president has announced his country’s withdrawal from UNASUR, an organization set up by the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez in 2008 to counter US influence. Colombia is situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America. Colombia shares a border to the northwest with Panama, to…

Tehran is seeking Europe’s assurances on Banking and oil trade after US sanctions plunder economic growth. Iran’s current nuclear program involves several research sites, two uranium mines, a research reactor, and uranium processing facilities. The country ratified the Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1970. Thus, its nuclear program has..

Tehran will argue against the US in The Hague against the freshly re-imposed sanctions on Iran. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. It settles legal disputes between member states and gives advisory opinions to authorized UN organs and specialized agencies…

US President Donald Trump has blamed China for his decision to pull Secretary of State Mike Pompeo out of a planned trip to North Korea, saying that Beijing is holding back denuclearization with inaction. The United States and China are two of the largest economies in the world. Each considers the…

Kyiv hosts the largest military parade in country’s history to mark its Independence Day. In the decade following its independence from the Soviet Union, successive presidents allowed oligarchs to gain increasing control over the economy while political repression intensified. By 2010, Ukraine’s fifty..

Britain offered a snapshot of a nation trying to come to grips with a possible “no-deal” exit from the European Union. It was on June 23rd, 2016, when Britain narrowly voted to leave the European Union stunning Europe and the world in general. The EU employs a set of policies for its 28-member states that…

President Trump remarked on the recent land-reforms in South Africa which would forcefully take away land from white farmers. Dutch settlers landed in the Cape of Good Hope in 1652 and began setting up farms in and around Cape Town. In 1795, the British occupied the region, sparking..

U.S. and Chinese officials ended two days of talks on Thursday with no major breakthrough as their trade war escalated with activation of another round of dueling tariffs on $16 billion worth of each country’s goods. Economists reckon that every $100 billion of imports hit by tariffs would reduce global trade by around 0.5 percent.…