The government should maintain policy measures to help resolve fiscal imbalances, increase spending efficiency, stimulate private sector development, and bring the impact of the epidemic and liquidity crisis on the financial sector into sharper focus to help limit adverse risks. ...
Reports indicate that the number of liberal democracies stood at 42 in 2012, their number has shrunk to its lowest level in over 25 years, with just 34 countries and 13 percent of the world population living in liberal democracies. ...
Ties between the US and its traditional allies vis-a-vis UK, Canada and Australia and China can no longer be viewed from simplistic binaries of left/right, liberal/conservative etc. ...
The 2+2 dialogue has genuinely created a ‘level playing field’ for India to be vocal about her own national interests and have a dialogue with one of the world’s great powers. ...
The BRI juggernaut aims to incorporate China into a variety of zones of influence along its borders and in emerging countries. Beijing participates in debt-trap diplomacy, similar to China’s state capitalism, in which the Communist Party of China provides enterprises with cheap equity and debt. ...
Women are marching out in the streets yelling that ‘wearing burqa or hijab is their choice’ and a state has the prime responsibility to respect that choice. ...
A conglomeration of like-minded countries is the need of an hour to propose policy alternatives to approach North Korea. A progressive approach towards peace and disarmament is much needed to curtail the North’s occupation. ...
This slow and gradual damage to Colombo is a matter of grave concern, and other countries caught in this vicious cycle of loans must learn lessons from the Sri Lankan experience. ...
If the situation persists and the United Nations fails to take a judgment call, the cascading effect of this would be catastrophic. It would end up imposing considerable strain on third world countries and no singular organization could solve the matter then. ...
Xi’s Global Security Initiative: New Wine in the same Bottle or More?
Global Security Initiative seemed to be an extended version of Beijing’s earlier security initiatives that suits the current geopolitical situation and will not bring any drastic change to China’s policies toward international security. ...