2021

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 …

The Red Planet Missions to Mars Perseverance is one of three separate missions that arrived at Mars in February this year. On February 9, the United Arab Emirates became the first Arab country to send a probe around Mars to study its atmosphere. The next day, China’s Tianwen-1 mission completed its first successful journey to another planet in our solar …

The Istanbul Canal President Erdogan’s ‘Crazy Project’ Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is well known for his penchant for gigantic construction projects in Istanbul. Be it a new airport, Turkey’s largest mosque or a tunnel that goes under the Bosporus — he has built it all within a short time. But these objects of prestige are nothing compared to his …

Major Chokepoints of the World 1. Strait of Gibraltar This strait between the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean has the United Kingdom’s tiny Gibraltar Colony as well as Spain on the north and Morocco and a small Spanish colony on the south. US warplanes were forced to fly over the strait (as protected by the 1982 conferences) when attacking Libya …

Europe’s “Sinatra Doctrine” on China The EU wants to go its own way Backdrop “When it comes to China, the primary concern of the EU and its members is to avoid being sucked into a superpower struggle between America and its geopolitical rival. For that, the EU has to develop its own independent position on China,” says Josep Borrell, the …

The Emerging Bloc Editorial May-2021

WHO Report on the Origins of Covid 19 A look at the key takeaways 1. Markets are the most probable source of major transmission of the virus. The focus is back on markets that sell animals. Covid-19 made its global debut amid a cluster of cases linked to the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan in late December 2019. Researchers tested …

Wakhan Corridor CPEC+ for Pakistan Pakistan is an ideal country for the CARs to have strong trade and diplomatic ties with, owing to mutual interests, social linkages on the base of religion, topographical vicinity, customs, culture, and social and religious values to some extent. Absence of a common border with any Central Asian state was one of the principle obstacles …