For years now Hungary has proven itself an outliner in the Union by challenging its founding values and using its veto power to stop decisions requiring unanimity as leverage. Orban’s tactics have so far proven effective thanks to the Union’s own lack of enforcement mechanisms and his own ability to create alliances within the Union and exploit every leverage at …

In 1994, India’s Supreme Court unequivocally stated, “Politics and religion cannot be mixed,” setting a precedent for the country’s secular constitution. Fast forward to January 22nd, and millions will witness Prime Minister Narendra Modi preside over the consecration of a contentious $220 million Hindu temple in Ayodhya. This ceremony marks the informal launch of his campaign for a third term, …

In recent months, the Chinese Coast Guard and Beijing’s maritime militia have engaged in perilous manoeuvres, hindering and harassing the Philippine Coast Guard and Armed Forces of the Philippines during resupply missions to the BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin Shoal. As tensons rise, China recognised the risk of involving the US, which has mutual defence treaties with the Philippines, and …

North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un renewed its war threats as he announced an end to the aim of reunification with South Korea. The peaceful reunification of the peninsula has been a part of the policy agenda of both his father and grandfather and a policy aim which provided a glimpse at peace between the North and the South. Contrary …

The United States has been one of the biggest supporters in providing military aid and funds to both Taiwan and Ukraine. Recently The Us diverted their military aid from Taiwan to Ukraine and this strategic move will make The United States weak in case of a possible China take over to Taiwan. If the United States can protect Taiwan, this strategic …

Tensions between North and South Korea are no news, after all the new countries are technically “at war”. However, in recent months we have witnessed an escalation of military, specifically nuclear tensions between the two Koreas, which represents a break from the welcomed inter-state agreement signed in 2018. Under the Comprehensive Military Agreement (CMA), both countries committed to “completely cease …

It has been well established over the last few decades that there has been a power shift in international relations, where the old and established superpower monopoly over each hemisphere hasn’t been questioned. This scenario, where we have been completely accustomed to things as they are post-cold war, has changed to allow each country to expand their cultures into one …

            The Middle East has been on everyone’s mind over the last few months due to the on-going atrocities happening in Gaza that sparked after an attack by Hamas against Israel’s territory that disproportionately developed into a serious conflict—or, better said, genocide. Tensions grew as the UN failed to effectively implement a long-lasting ceasefire, allowing for the conflict to continue and …

A summit hosted by Japan commemorating their 50th anniversary in formal diplomatic relations between The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and Japan, in which the overview of the summit was to strengthen regional security, and  another was promoting closer economic cooperation. Now into more than half a century, Japan and ASEAN have planted the seed of their relationship through economic …

At a recent summit in San Francisco, Chinese President Xi Jinping openly stated that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with mainland China. According to the officials present at the meeting in question, Xi told Biden that China would prefer a peaceful reunification. Nonetheless, were that impossible, according to the anti-secession law passed in 2005, China would be compelled to act militarily. …