Opinion
Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and President of the People's Republic of China (PRC), arrived in Pyongyang by his personal plane on 20 June to pay a state visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The Chinese President...
The US-China trade war has been escalating in the recent weeks, with both countries announcing new tariffs on each other’s goods.It may be recalled that this ball game started on 6 July, 2018, with both countries announcing tariffs at 10 per cent on products valued at US Dollar 34 billion...
Civil resistance movements have been taking place all over the world for the past year. Venezuela, Spain, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Algeria, Tunisia, Yemen and Thailand have been in the headlines. Now Sudan is featuring in the forefront of this evolving paradigm. World attention has been drawn once ...
Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror among masses of people; or fear to achieve a religious or political aim. It is used in this regard primarily to refer to violence during peacetime or in war against non-combatants &ndash...
After docking up more than 140 rallies while chasing a second term, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ended up scoring a dramatic election victory. The cult of personality politics was evident all the way. Through this process he has increased his Hindu nationalist Party’s majority in the Lok Sabha...
Over the last two years, the world has witnessed the tragic deaths of thousands of people from different countries drowning in the Mediterranean Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean while trying to enter Europe or Thailand or Malaysia. The latest such incident off the coast of Tunisia in Nort...
Ramadan symbolizes endurance and reassertion of faith. It is also a time when one should indulge in politics or grand display of affluence. Ramadan connects us with the Almighty and reminds us that the most important thing in life is to be able to withstand pain and hunger and help ot...
The last few weeks have seen controversy generated in the European Union over certain actions taken by the present Italian government. Some have even suggested that Italy’s compass pertaining to its foreign policy has gone astray.Attempts by China and Italy towards a common engagement on the O...
Terrorism has continued to spread its presence through an osmotic process. It had touched Dhaka nearly three years ago through the Holy Artisan Bakery incident. There had been fundamentalist and communal attacks at different times earlier but the Holy Artisan incident and the alleged associatio...
The calamitous effects of climate change have been drawing the attention of the world in general since 2017 but more so over the past year and a half. Discussions on this issue are taking place in different platforms. There have been differences of opinion among the climatologists, economi...
Over the last year there have been pessimist comments about how the Chinese economy is gradually eroding and how the trade war with the United States is affecting its growth. There have also been reports that dire aspects associated with the Chinese economy have been over stressed.The latest As...
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