India’s former Permanent Representative to the UN Syed Akbaruddin recently published an informative opinion piece at NDTV titled “Tariff Blitz: Is India Becoming Collateral Damage In Someone Else's War?” The gist is that the West, via Trump’s threatened 100%...
Western media has published a spree of articles raising awareness of the important role that Myanmar’s Kachin State plays in the global rare earth minerals industry. The latest phase of that country’s long-running civil war, which is more complex...
Trump announced on Monday that he was shortening his 50-day deadline to Putin for a ceasefire in Ukraine to “about 10 or 12 days from today”, thus meaning that he plans to impose up to 100% tariffs on all...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen agreed to a framework deal with the US whereby the EU will be charged 15% tariffs on most imports, commit to purchasing $750 billion in US energy exports, and invest $600 billion...
It was concluded here in late July after Trump’s recent remarks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) that he has ulterior motives for supporting Egypt in this dispute. These suspicions were lent credence after Arab News reported that...
Zelensky announced after a call with his Ghanaian counterpart in early July that “Ghana is ready to finance our (drone) production, and we are ready to help our partners secure their borders.” This caught many observers by surprise since...
The latest clashes between Cambodia and Thailand over their decades-long border dispute, which were arguably initiated by the Thai military to restore its damaged prestige amidst a recent political scandal as explained here, could “move towards war” according to...
Brazil has come under tremendous pressure from Trump in recent weeks over former President Jair Bolsonaro’s trial, bilateral trade, and BRICS. This has correspondingly taken the form of him: publishing a letter of support for Bolsonaro demanding an “immediate...
Intense clashes broke out along the colonial-era French-drawn Cambodian-Thai border on Thursday in the latest phase of this long-running conflict. Both sides blame the other for starting it but there’s reason to believe that Thailand was the one that...
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev spent several hours answering questions at the third Shusha Global Media Forum in late July. His country recently catapulted to global attention as a result of political tensions with Russia, which readers can learn more...
