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 November 30, 2025, Egypt proposed an ambitious plan to establish a commercial corridor linking the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE) with Pakistan’s Gwadar Port. This proposal, articulated by Egypt’s Foreign Minister
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Sundays at Paramasivam Pushpalatha’s home used to be a much livelier affair. It was her only day off from the factory and so she would pack seven days of domesticity into one.
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If Antarctica were music, it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth
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There has been no let-up in nature’s fury; torrential rains and gale-force winds continue to lash many parts of Sri Lanka, triggering floods and landslides. About 60 lives had been lost at
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The Nobel Peace Prize was established in 1901. In the decades that followed, Mahatma Gandhi emerged as the international symbol of world peace for resistance to the dominant imperialism of his time
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The far right in Latin America is angry. Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Argentina’s Javier Milei always look furious, and they always speak loudly and aggressively. Testosterone leaks from their pores, a toxic
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A familiar drama has resurfaced in Skopje. While I was still in Beijing attending the CASS academic conference on the Belt and Road Initiative, news broke that the Vice Speaker of the
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Ximdo is a people’s peace movement that has been growing in the war- and famine-plagued Horn of Africa for several months now. The word comes from the Tigrinya language, used by Eritreans
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Ever since India attained independence, the countrymen have been remembering the great national leaders and freedom fighters on their birth anniversaries, particularly Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. Continuing this trend, Prime Minister
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by Durga Velayudham Sri Lanka is at the blink of another recorded disaster; sooner the blaming and shaming game of usual political catastrophisers will emerge. Failures of the government will try to hide
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