Int’l Affairs

US-China Strategic Competition under Joe Biden In late 2017, China–US relations shifted dramatically when the Trump administration officially labelled China as a strategic competitor. Many believe strategic competition will continue to define the relationship under the Biden administration. China–US strategic competition under the Trump administration was rather malign. First, it was a competition to undermine rather than outperform the other. …

UNSHACKLING IRAN from Sanctions Iran’s Strategy to Reduce the  Effects of Economic Sanctions Imposed by  Trump Regime In May 2018, President Trump abandoned the landmark Iran Nuclear Deal by saying, “The fact is, this was a horrible, one-sided deal that should have never, ever been made. It didn’t bring calm, it didn’t bring peace, and it never will. Trump’s supporters …

How to Revive Multilateralism in a Multipolar World Multilateralism is not a magic wand. However, it can mitigate the power differences that exist between states by binding them by common rules. That is why Europe and the vast majority of states worldwide endorse it. Now, multilateral rules do not fall from the sky. They reflect a state of play and …

GREAT POWER Confrontation Russia and China vs. the United States There has been plenty of buzz in the foreign policy world about the possibility of a new Cold War between the US and China. If anything, that 20th century term fails to encapsulate the breadth of the contested issues and the fact that unlike the Soviet Union, the rising Asian …

Dual Circulation China’s New Development Paradigm The annual gathering of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) took place in March, at the usual time this year. Premier Li Keqiang’s speech and government documents presented at the meet showed confidence on the country’s past achievements. China’s management of the pandemic and its standing as the only major economy to achieve positive GDP …

Beyond  the Covid-19 Pandemic Global Peace and Imperatives of Our Future Understanding Tragic Tensions of Politics and Scientific Cure Many political leaders in the Western democratic culture failed to understand the wide range of social, economic, medical and political prejudices, legal injustices and vices of racial discrimination which compounded and highlighted the public portrait of racial injustices and degradation of …

American Jobs Plan Joe Biden’s Plan to Rebuild Infrastructure and  Reshape the US Economy On 31st March, US president, Joe Biden, unveiled his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan that is centred on fixing roads and bridges, expanding broadband internet access and boosting funding for research and development, plus higher corporate taxes to pay for the package. “It’s not a plan that …

Recent Tax Measures to Boost Investment Level of investment is an important determinant of a country’s economic growth, and it is deemed essential to creating jobs, thus reducing unemployment. The Government of Pakistan is aware of the overwhelming significance of investment in the national economy. This could be the reason why the government has recently amended the tax laws through …

Biden Needs A New Pakistan Policy For the first time in over two decades, Pakistan is not a foreign-policy priority for a new US administration. Since 2001, Pakistan has been a focus of the War on Terror and critical to US military involvement in Afghanistan. But that security imperative no longer drives US foreign policy. A shrinking US military footprint …

US-China Meet in Alaska The first talks between the Biden administration and top Chinese diplomats have concluded in Alaska. The dialogue was held between Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and US State …