Since the beginning of the new era, China’s policy of fostering amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness in neighborhood diplomacy has significantly advanced its relations with neighboring countries. China has reached a
On the intervening night of July 13-14, 2026, Mewa Singh, an accused in a 2020 sacrilege (beadbi) case, was hacked to death by unidentified assailants inside his residence in Turan village, Fatehgarh
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Keep your eyes on the Bab el-Mandeb, or Strait of Tears, the narrow strait at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Twenty-five percent of the world’s container shipping passes through this vital
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After Miami-based firm Affinity Partners secured their first building permit for major developments on Albania’s coast on April 29, outrage in the small Balkan country has steadily grown. Within weeks, a video of a
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In 2015, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) published a paper by the influential economist Robert H. Wade titled ‘The Role of Industrial Policy in Developing Countries’. Wade argued
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As Prime Minister Narendra Modi accelerates India’s nuclear ambitions, a dream rooted in Homi Bhabha’s post-independence vision of atomic self-reliance, a fresh cyber breach has cast an unflattering light on the risks
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The US and Iran are back at war. On Monday, President Donald Trump announced the United States would reimpose its naval blockade of Iran, effective Tuesday afternoon. Iran responded by declaring the
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It is 19 April 2025. A 12-year-old girl and her 3-year-old brother are playing in front of their house in the village of Bert-Furik. A group of Israeli settlers kidnaps them. At
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When Vladimir Lenin wrote about imperialism and considered it the highest stage of capitalism, he was tracking the moment capital shifted from the space of free competition into the world of monopoly, where banks merged with
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On 4 March 2026, a US military vessel torpedoed and sunk the unarmed Iranian frigate IRIS Dena off the southern coast of Sri Lanka. The illegal strike killed over 80 and injured over 30
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The ship tracker in Kota Kinabalu, where I am — on the eastern edge of Malaysia — shows that 281 ships passed through the Malacca Strait on July 14, compared with 134
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