Int’l Affairs

Is Victory in Sight? Covid-19 vaccine rolled out An outcome of joint research efforts by an American pharmaceutical giant and a German biotechnology company, Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine got an emergency use authorization (EUA) from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the US on 11 December for the prevention of Covid-19 in individuals 16 years of age and older. This …

India’s Monroe Doctrine for Asia  This would not be an exaggerated assertion that India sees itself as a regional hegemon, a ‘just leader’ and the sole dominant force in the Indian Ocean region. India has not only sped up its struggle to maintain its hegemony over the region, but has also started spreading its wings further to give its rival …

America at A Crossroads. Trump’s Absolutism and the Clash of Democracy President Trump embarked on deceitful triumphalism after a fair and free outcome of the 2020 Presidential election. While denying the facts and enlarging the scope of hype, false rhetoric and wickedness to claim a political win utterly divorced from the prevalent facts on America’s ‘We, the People’ landscape. He …

REGIONAL COMPREHENSIVE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP November 15 will be remembered as a historic day in the history of the world in general, and of Asia in particular, as on this day, ten ASEAN nations, plus five other Asia-Pacific countries – China, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and Australia – entered into the world’s largest free-trade agreement aptly named as Regional Comprehensive …

The Indo-US Connivance Against China It is evident from the developments as well as the US engagements with India during the past decade or so that America’s grand strategy towards China is primarily to achieve a ‘balance of power in Asia.’ This is evidenced by the Indo-US strategic partnership that has soared to an unprecedented level during the recent years. …

The BIDEN ERA BEGINS Can the new US President heal a deeply fissured America? The nail-biting contest to the White House is over with the President-elect Joe Biden all set to step into the Oval Office on 20th of January 2021. Despite the havoc unleashed in the United States by the deadly coronavirus, which has infected more than ten million …

China’s 14th Five Year Plan The People’s Republic of China wields enormous influence in the arena of international trade and finance. This Asian giant has become the world’s largest manufacturing economy ($3.8 trillion), the biggest exporter ($2.6 trillion), the world’s second-largest importer ($2.08 trillion), surpassed the gross domestic product (on the basis of Purchasing Power Parity) of the United States …

The BECA Pact During the third round of 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue between India and the United States, both countries signed Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement on Geospatial Cooperation, or BECA, whereby the US has allowed India access to a range of sensitive geospatial and aeronautical data that is crucial for military action. Under the agreement, the United States will provide …

American Presidential Election and Democracy Presidential Election in Stained Democracy When false claims challenge the truth, fearful and ferocious public outcomes are bred. No wonder, why the American masses are more divided today than any time in recent history. American presidential elections 2020 failed to produce a viable prospect for the working of democracy. The nation is entrenched in an …

what MACRON WANTS? Once again, the Muslim world has been deeply saddened and enraged by the heart-wrenching comments of French president Emmanuel Macron about Islam and its adherents. His remarks are the vivid depiction of his prejudice and bias towards more than a billion peace-loving Muslims of the world. He, by passing such anti-Islam rant, rather than uniting his people, …