The “Global Security Initiative” (GSI) announced by Xi Jinping in April 2022 was finally elaborated nine months later in the form of a concept note after the start of his unprecedented third mandate as the leader of the Chinese Communist...
Today if we talk about soft and hard power, it’s because Professor Joseph Nye theorized them in the late 1980s. Nye is a Political Science researcher at Harvard University and throughout his long and prestigious career he has been a...
In September 2022, Spain-based human rights group Safeguard first reported about Chinese Overseas Police Stations (COPS) operating across five continents. There are reportedly around 102 such stations operating in 53 countries. The network of COPS has supposedly been established by...
Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is scheduled to land in New Delhi to inaugurate the Raisina Dialogues on the 2nd of March as the chief guest with Prime Minister Modi. She will also hold bilateral meetings with Indian Prime Minister...
The Russian invasion of Ukraine, on February 24, 2022, will be remembered among the 21st century’s pivotal events, a turning point in world history. There is no aspect of today’s international relations and global economy that has not been touched...
The Tibetan community of Rome gathered in the iconic Piazza Republica in central Rome to celebrate the 110th anniversary of ‘Tibetan Independence Day‘ on February 13. Buddhist monks in their traditional robes holding Tibetan flags and signs reading “Free Tibet”...
The political crisis is intensifying in Pakistan after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry was arrested in the early hours of January 25. The arrest followed Chaudhry’s public criticism of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) government for allegedly planning to...
These are bad times for the all-powerful Pakistan Army. A troubled change of guard last November has not helped. It remains in the crosshair of those it has patronized and promoted. None seems to believe its public pronouncements that it...
China is widely accused by human rights organizations of oppressing Uyghurs, one of the country’s largest predominantly Muslim minorities. Those including Amnesty and Human Rights Watch have accused Beijing of incarcerating tens of thousands of Uyghurs in “camps” in Xinjiang...
Away from media glare, the Pakistan Army launched Operation “Bolan” a large-scale military operation in the mountain ranges of Bolan, Balochistan at the end of October 2022. The operation in Bolan came after the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) issued an...