Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, was arrested on May 9 while appearing for a hearing in the Islamabad High Court on corruption charges. Khan’s arrest is the latest twist in the political and economic crisis that has engulfed Pakistan in recent years. The arrest has also raised concerns about the implications for democracy and the rule of law …

The latest strategic decision on part of Kremlin to suspend its last remaining nuclear weapons treaty with the US and its ongoing cooperation in nuclear technology transfer with China has effectively created a new strategic paradigm where China will continue to accelerate the construction of its nuclear arsenal, with the new deal between both countries cancelling any serious prospects for …

The Saudis and Iranian Government has historically not seen eye to eye in matters spanning from religious school of thought, politics and policies, international relations (especially with the West Bloc), oily export policy and most significantly, power over the Middle East. With no diplomatic relations after the 2016 attacks on the Saudi Diplomatic Mission in Tehran, tensions between the countries …

China is visibly closing itself off. Exchange and dialogue are hardly possible anymore. This has drastic consequences for the relationship with the West. For more than two and a half years, hardly any foreign political advisor has visited China. Some even say Scott Kennedy is now the first. The senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in …

The dispute in the Indo-Pacific region has increased dramatically during the last year, showing its effects in present days of the 2021. Japan in the past months has claimed more attention from the international allies over the Chinese expansionism. In September, the former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga travelled to Washington to attend an in-person summit of Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, a …

In the last two years, the Balkan route has become one of the most frequented routes for illegal and uncontrolled immigration. Afghans, Pakistanis and especially Syrians have embarked on the dangerous journey to survive war and misery via the Balkan route[1]. The region already suffers from its own political, economic and social instability and fragility, and the challenge of the …

When we talk about Afghanistan-India relations we usually refer to the diplomatic ties between India and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which ruled over the territory between 2001 and 2021 until the Taliban’s takeover, the two parties are neighbors, they share both historical and cultural traditions and, as a matter of fact, the Republic of India was the only South …

The People’s Republic of China is, to this day, the second largest world economy. And yet its currency, the Yuan, is still heavily influenced by the Dollar, the currency of a country which is perceived by the PRC as antagonist. However, as recently as April 2021, the PRC announced the experimentation of a digital version of the Yuan, the Digital …

One of the most dramatic humanitarian crisis that has hit Asia in a long time is the one concerning the Rohingya minority of Myanmar, whose population suffered gross human rights violations in the last years. However, Myanmar is also a member of ASEAN, an international organization of ten South-East Asia countries, and in 2007 the member states reunited in Jakarta …

The History between the two countries goes a long way, since 1955 Moscow had provided military training and warfare material to Afghanistan and supported the PDPA, the at-the-time recently government installed upon Marxist ideology, which then split and whose more radical faction decided to improve relations with the U.S rather than following the soviet influence, these happenings eventually led to …