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
Germany’s next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, is poised to take office amid mounting political turmoil over whether the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party should be banned, following its formal designation as “extremist”
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One of the world’s, oldest and most dangerous conflicts went critical this past week as nuclear armed India and Pakistan traded threats of war. The Kashmir conflict is the oldest one before the
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Time past is time present in India-Pakistan crisis. The ‘mediation’ by the United States from behind the scene on the diplomatic track appears to be once again working, which calls on both
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I had the privilege of accompanying the papal flight to Cuba and the United States in September 2015. As the only journalist from the country being visited, I was granted the first
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump has escalated his pressure campaign against Iran, vowing to impose sweeping secondary sanctions on any country or individual purchasing Iranian oil or petrochemicals, in a move that
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The April 22, 2025 attack on unsuspecting tourist on the Baisaram meadow in Pehelgam (Shepherds’ Valley), Anantnag District in the illegally occupied Indian side of Kashmir is condemnable. Civilian fratricide in Kashmir’s
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Any relationship that endures for half a century is bound to be complex, marked by periods of harmony, tension, adaptation, and change. Sustaining such a relationship requires goodwill, mutual understanding, the ability
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Wars – which I will define broadly as matters of military conflict sustained partly by the nature of the soldiers fighting and partly by a participating nation’s ability to economically support the
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The enduring relevance of Niccolò Machiavelli’s thought, particularly as encapsulated in The Prince, lies not in its supposed exaltation of cruelty or deception, but in its sobering recognition of the exigencies of
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In a timely reminder, even as Indians are demanding robust retaliation for the terrorist attack in Pahalgam in Kashmir, the US president Donald Trump pulled aside Prime Minister Narendra Modi to signal
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