Category: Geopolitics

Russian President assures Nord stream 2 is purely an economic project and will not impact gas supplies through Ukraine. Nord Stream is an offshore natural gas pipeline from Vyborg in the Russian Federation to Greifswald in Germany that is owned and operated by Nord Stream AG. In 2011…

The Treasury departments targets prominent commanders for their involvement in “ethnic cleansing” of Rohingya Muslims. The US imposed these sanctions as part of the Global Magnitsky Act, which empowers the administration to sanction those who violate human rights abuses worldwide. Myanmar is a country located..

Washington aims to “change the regime’s behaviour”; looking to spur international support for their effort. In 2015, Iran agreed to a long-term deal on its nuclear programme with the P5+1 group of world powers – the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany. It came after years of tension over Iran’s alleged efforts to develop..

Doha commits to invest up to USD 15 billion into Turkey’s financial markets and banks. Qatar is an emirate situated in the Persian Gulf, with a population of two and half million people, a high per capita income and a high HDI rank. Turkey is a moderately conservative Islamic country which…

Israel’s Financial capital marches against the introduction of a controversial new “Jewish-State” law. Israel is a country located in Western Asia, bordering Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories. It has a population of 8.9 million which is predominantly Jewish (74.7%) with Islam being the..

Preferred deals under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor are under scanner as Pakistan’s ruling party looks to uncover corruption under the previous administration. China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) with an estimated investment of US$ 55 billion is both developmental and..

Turkey’s lira has fallen to a record low against the dollar and its $ 900 billion economy is teetering on the edge of a full-blown financial crisis. The US doubled the tariffs on steel and aluminium which further triggered the currency fall. Relations between the US and Turkey have certainly not been at its best…

Argentina’s Patagonia region is home to China’s new satellite monitoring station and robust Chinese influence. China is a single-party socialist republic in Asia, with over 1.4 billion people and the world’s second largest economy terms of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)..

Russia has condemned the new US sanctions as the ‘theatre of the absurd’ and dubbed the US as an erratic and unpredictable international actor that had betrayed “constructive” talks between the two countries’. The sanctions are in response to the poisoning by a nerve agent, novichok of Skripal and his daughter..

Peace talks between Israel-Palestine administered by the Trump administration is faltering. Israel is a country in the Middle East bordered by Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea. The area has rich history that dates to the prebiblical times and was a..