Bitcoin: The New Global Reserve Currency?
With China’s rise, and due to security concerns around the safety of its supply chains, the US is interested in getting industry back onshore.
Genocide as a Label of Choice: Why Some Genocides Are More Equal Than Others
Read: Genocide on Trial: The Rohingya Plight and Gambia’s Moral Foreign PolicyAll of this may also expound the outright neglect of ongoing genocides (currently the Uyghurs in China and Rohingyas in Myanmar) because tackling them more directly wouldn’t benefit the interests of the Great White-Northern Powers.
The Most Dangerous Place in the World: Jammu & Kashmir and Its Ongoing Border Disputes
Using these factors as reference points, this article adds important context to the long-standing border conflicts between nuclear powers - India and China and India and Pakistan, in the disputed territory of J&K.
The Last Remaining Arms Control Treaty between the US and Russia Expires Soon: An Interview with Rebecca Davis Gibbons on the New START
However, the Trump administration started to focus on China, which is emerging as a global power, and suggested that it is time to bring China into these traditional arms control agreements.
Will Latin America Turn into Another Domain of Right-Wing Politics?
” As the United States’ empire faces increasing challenges as a dominant superpower as a result of the rise of China, Russia, and smaller regional powers in Asia, Africa, and Europe that are stepping up their influence worldwide, Latin America seems to be turning into an “Alamo” of U.
Malaysia and Turkey: Old Friends, New Allies?
Read: China-US Competition in the Asia-Pacific Will Grow Stronger With the RCEPWith the onset of COVID-19, the new Malaysian government under Muhyiddin Yassin is fully preoccupied with domestic issues, with little attention given to foreign affairs.
Can Muslims Reclaim a Unified Political Bloc on the International Stage?
Meanwhile, the governments of many Muslim countries have shied away from criticizing China for its cultural genocide of the Uyghur people in Xinyang, where Muslims are openly targeted for imprisonment and “re-education” for praying, avoiding pork and alcohol, or fasting during the holy month of Ramadan.
What Drives Pakistan on the Recognition of Israel: The Arab Gulf, India, or the Pakistanis?
-Pakistan defense cooperation similarly has been losing weight since Pakistan has been tilting towards China for its economic and defense needs; 73 percent of Pakistan’s arms imports came from China in the period of 2015-2019.
Piracy and the Global Military Presence in the Gulf of Aden
Read: Is China Buying Out Africa?
The other important hotspot that poses serious challenges to contemporary piracy and armed robbery against ships takes place in the Gulf of Guinea and Nigeria.
Will Biden Upend the Controversial US-UAE Arms Deal?
But some officials in Washington opposed to this arms sale to Abu Dhabi point to the UAE’s relations with Russia and China.
“Trumpism was an aberrational swing of the political pendulum to the extreme right”: Interview with Poka Laenui
It is a fear of the rise of China especially, as well as Vietnam, India, and North Korea in the East.
Can Diasporas Ease Tensions in International Politics?
Malaysians of Chinese origin, who make up nearly 24% of the population and who have an influence over a significant portion of the Malaysian economy, are an important pillar in the relationship between China and Malaysia.
The Vaccine Nationalism Craze Is on the Rise Globally
, and China declined to participate in this global effort to find a COVID-19 vaccine.
Is Russian Cultural Hegemony in Central Asia Finally Over?
Central Asia is located in a challenging geography where both China and Russia are trying to exert their influence and play the new Great Game.
A Turkish-Italian Alliance on Libya?
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Slavery and Colonialism Go Deeper than Toppling Statues
, 'Asian' in conversation and on official forms refers to people of Far-East Asian descent (China, Japan, Korea) and is often used by people from those groups as a self-identifier (such as on TV, comedy and radio programs) even though Asia is a massive continent that includes 4.
The Drone Warfare Revolution Has Arrived
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Though the United States until recently restricted exports of its long-endurance Predator and MQ-9 Reaper UCAVs, China, Iran, Israel, and Turkey have since developed and widely exported their own combat drones.
New Geopolitics in a Post-Coronavirus World
The novel coronavirus or COVID-19, which appeared in China in December 2019 and has been on the global agenda for months, is set to be the pioneer of a change that will reshape the world according to many commentators.
Corona Is For All And There Are Lessons To Be Learnt Globally
Kenyans distributing food and aid to the daily laborers that live in the slums of Nairobi who were affected by the curfews, Japan offering warm support to China at the height of the crisis in Wuhan, Turkey sending aid to Iran, Italy, Spain, and the Balkans, and Somalia sending 20 doctors to Italy, are a great start to governments collaborating positively during the crisis, which can be built upon in the future.
Communal India: Past, Present and Future
and Europe are global giants through a mix of economic and social influence alongside an ingrained historical trajectory (whatever one's opinion may be the fact of the matter is their histories are considered of global importance to study); China lacks the historical interest (which may change) and cultural interest but is racing forward as an economic behemoth with a massive population that is now seen as a strength (whereas once it was considered a huge liability).
