Global Policy & Analysis Think Tank
It has often been said that war is what happens when diplomacy has broken down. This is as true today as it has ever been. But of equal importance, war is also what happens when normal economic activity breaks down. Indeed, one of the very motivating factors of imperialism is […]
The announcement that the UAE and India signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly invest in Africa will see Dubai greatly assisting New Delhi in its grand strategy of “multi-aligning” against China there, though Russia could play a stabilizing role by “balancing” many of the various actors engaged in this […]
This month has seen the customary end-of-year ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) conference followed by the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) conference with the former being held in Singapore and the latter being held in Papua New Guinea. This year, while the ASEAN conference did not formally finalise the creation […]
A positive breakthrough While China and Japan formally established diplomatic relations in 1972, subsequent relations were often marred by lingering historic hostility. This week however saw a culmination of a lengthy and manifold reconciliation process that has resulted in multiple agreements signed between the public sectors and business sectors of […]
Japan’s historic relations with China are marked by negativity, but in spite of this, in the modern era China seeks to turn a new page on Sino-Japanese relations and engage in a co-equal economic partnership within the framework of Belt and Road centred cooperative measures. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Hua […]
While the heavily indebted US economy relies on sovereign states to purchase American debt, the inflationary spirals that have appeared throughout small, medium and large emerging markets as a direct result of Washington’s policies have led to the phenomenon of both US partners and rivals simultaneously selling off their holdings […]
India has long had warm relations with the DPRK (North Korea) and in the 21st century this relationship has led to a general increase in bilateral trade between the two nations. While India (like all other trading partners of the DPRK) runs a vast trading surplus with the DPRK, the […]
Despite being a far-flung and underdeveloped region, the Russian Far East might turn out to be the country’s most promising one if several visionary connectivity proposals are implemented. Russia has been prioritizing the development of its far-flung and long-neglected Far Eastern region for the past three years now ever since […]
Donald Trump has announced a further $200 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese imports on top of existing tariffs that have been levied by Washington against multiple trading partners, but China in particular throughout the year. The announcement came as no surprise as it was widely leaked (possibly intentionally) to […]
Newton’s law of physics helps explain the tariff war Newton’s third law of physics states that: “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”. Likewise in a trade war, Newton’s third law also tends to apply. This is why China imposes reciprocal tariffs on US imports every time […]
