Under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, China has become a proactiveparticipant in world affairs, showing a desire and an ability to contribute toglobal public goods. As a result, China’s support for the United Nations hasgrown considerably.…
China has, in the recent decades, has consolidated its interests in the South Asian region. This change in China’s foreign policy, from a focus on the North-East and South-East Asia, hints at an attempt to sustain China’s own peaceful rise. India, on…
Kenya is dependent on China to speed up its national development strategies following its ‘Vision 2030’ plan because it finds Chinese loans comparatively better than other loans because of varied reasons explained in the paper. Chinese Foreign Direct…
In the light of the Chinese and Indian perspectives on the cessation of theDoklam impasse, the present article analyses China’s role and status ininternational politics. The Chinese perspective described China as a statusquo power and never accepted…
International trade plays an important role in Malaysia’s economy and growth performance. The emergence of the coronavirus disease in 2019 (Covid-19) and declared a pandemic at the beginning of 2020 has led to an unprecedented economic crisis in…
India and China share a complex bilateral relationship, consisting of military confrontations, diplomatic dialogues, and intense economic activities, concurrent with multilateral engagements. Their growth prospects and future visions set them on a…
Since the formation of the People's Republic of China (PRC), China's defence forces have evolved through various stages of modernisation with a focus on doctrinal changes, structural reforms, as well as reduction of forces. Post Mao era, the first…
Since April 2020, a myriad of ‘whys and wherefores' on China's premeditated aggression around its periphery and against India in Eastern Ladakh, have been analysed ad infinitum. Inconclusive debates on China's belligerence against its neighbouring…
The United States (US) is usually thought of as a nation representing freedom, democracy and human rights. However, as shown by Noam Chomsky and a few others, the US has turned out to be the most dominant imperialist nation as it is a ‘super power’…
In the process of European constitutionalisation, the European Union continues to struggle for an identity that can generate widespread support amongst its peoples. Against this background it has been suggested by some that a European identity…
