Context China’s status as a ‘developing country’ at the World Trade Organization (WTO) has become a contentious issue with a number of countries raising concerns over the upper middle-income nation deriving benefits reserved for developing countries under WTO norms. Moreover, …
Why in News: China is constructing a bridge in Eastern Ladakh connecting the North and South Banks of Pangong Tso which would significantly bring down the time for People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to move troops and equipment between the two …
Why in news? Recently, the heads of the world’s major economies—the Group of 20 (G20) nations has approved a new global minimum corporate tax. The deal, announced at the G20 summit in Rome, Italy, is “historic” since this is the …
What’s in the news? The European Commission announced a plan to mobilise €300 billion ($340 billion) in public and private infrastructure investment around the world, a move seen as a response to China’s Belt and Road strategy. The Global Gateway …
What’s in the news? The 9th Meeting of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime was recently held. During the meeting, emerging traditional and non-traditional security threats …
CONTEXT India does not have a tradition of shadow cabinets, which remains behind the government in power with ready alternative approaches to policy matters. Here the opposition challenges government policies, but provides no alternatives to be adopted in the event …
NEWS In pursuing its Indo-Pacific strategy, India needs to be mindful of the China-U.S. equations in the region. BACKGROUND The island of Taiwan is the unfinished business of China’s liberation under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1949. The Guomindang …
Background Recently, the U.S. President Joe Biden, along with Prime Ministers Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson of Australia and the U.K. respectively, announced the formation of a new trilateral security partnership called AUKUS (Australia-U.K.-U.S.). Under the new security alliance, the …
CONTEXT The recent bombing by the Islamic State outside Kabul airport that killed about 200 Afghans and 13 Americans at a time when the U.S. was scrambling to evacuate its citizens from Afghanistan was a tragic testimony to everything that …