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
Across the world, there is broad agreement, including in the area of politics and diplomacy, that a strong leader can be useful. The term, no doubt, carries more than one interpretation, but
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At the Munich Security Conference in February 2025, Macedonian Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski was the only European to applaud the speech by US Vice President JD Vance. From Munich, Mickoski went to
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Ah, Sri Lanka, the land where logic and governance waltz in opposite directions while the citizens watch in bemused horror. Just when we thought our beloved island had exhausted its supply of
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During his address to Congress on March 4, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump faced brief heckling from Democratic Representative AI Green and scattered jeers from his colleagues. But the overwhelming response was silence, reflective
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India deliberately delayed the SAARC Summit in Sri Lanka in 1991, a decision that unsettled President Premadasa. Despite his repeated efforts, he failed to secure the Indian Prime Minister’s presence at the
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In 1989, one-third of the inhabitants of Porto Alegre, Brazil, lived in impoverished regions on the fringes of the city, cut off from sanitation, clean water, medical facilities, and other essential resources. In response, the Brazilian
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On 27 January 2025, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians left their temporary shelters in southern Gaza and marched en masse to the north. They crossed various towns along the way, one long
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by a Special Defence Affairs Correspondent in Colombo In a landmark statement in Parliament, Sri Lanka’s President emphasized a critical principle: the loyalty of the military should be to the state as
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Al Jazeera’s Head-to-Head presenter Mehdi Hasan and former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, in an interview recorded in February but released last week, dealt with the conclusion of the war against the Liberation Tigers of
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Nonbody can claim that the rate of growth of agricultural production, especially of food grain production, has been higher in the neoliberal period than during the years of dirigiste development that preceded it; it
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