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Vaccine Apartheid As Covid-19 affected everyone differently, it changed a lot the way we conduct our lives. One thing it taught everyone was: equitable access to Covid-19 vaccine is essential for global efforts toward recovery. In the beginning, people around the world waited impatiently for the vaccines against the deadly …

The US- Pacific Island Country Summit During the past few months, the Pacific region has received a torrent of attention from the governments of the United States and China. When China concluded a security deal with the Solomon Islands in March this year, it raised many eyebrows in the White …

The Emerging International Order Few recent meetings had been as highly anticipated as the meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. This meeting brought the leaders of two countries where Chinese …

Russia’s Annexation Move A tried-and-tested charade? Russian President Vladimir Putin has formally signed a treaty annexing four Ukrainian regions into the Russian Federation. The Russian president announced, at a ceremony in Moscow’s Red Square, that the incorporation of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson, in the south and east of Ukraine, …

Nord Stream Leaks On 26 September, leaks were discovered in the underwater Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, located near Denmark and Sweden. Both pipelines are owned by Russia and were built to transport natural gas from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea. Western officials have linked the …

Biden Administration’s National Security Strategy 2022 Long live the competition! The White House released, on October 12, its long-awaited National Security Strategy (NSS), which US President Joe Biden described in the introduction as “a 360-degree strategy grounded in the world as it is today, laying out the future we seek, …

Minerals Security Partnership In June this year, United States led the formation of a new partnership called ‘Minerals Security Partnership’ (MSP) that intends to reduce the dependence of the member nations on China for supplies of cobalt, nickel, lithium and the 17 rare earth minerals. The alliance, which now includes …

Global Peace and Conflict Management After more than eight months into warfare and several millions of forcibly displaced refugees, there is no proactive leadership vision and workable plan on table to change the course of contemporary tragic events, massive deaths and destruction as morality and human intellect continue to decline …

COP 27 HOPES AND EXPECTATIONS The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly referred to as COP27 (Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC), will be held from 6 to 18 November in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Government and industry representatives from across the world will attend this 27th edition …

Clean, Healthy Environment A Universal Human Right Now In July this year, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed a historic resolution whereby it recognized the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right. Through the resolution, the UNGA has called upon states, international organizations, businesses, …