The Belt and Road Initiative: China's vision for globalisation, Beijing-style
May 19, 2017 04:39 am UTC| Insights & Views
Chinas Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a multifaceted economic, diplomatic and geopolitical undertaking that has morphed through various iterations, from the New Silk Road to One Belt One Road. The BRI imagines a...
Global Geo-political Series: German-Turkey relations worsen
May 18, 2017 11:53 am UTC| Commentary
While the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hailed a new era in relations between the United States and Turkey, the relations with the EU seems to be deteriorating. The relations between the two started deteriorating...
Global Geo-political Series: Vladimir Putin mocks fake news on Trump sharing classified information
May 18, 2017 09:41 am UTC| Commentary
The Russian president Vladimir Putin makes a mockery of the fake news that the US President Donald Trump passed on sensitive and classified information to the Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov during Mr. Lavrovs...
Global Geo-political Series: Trump-Erdogan hints at new era of relations
May 17, 2017 10:27 am UTC| Commentary
The US President Donald Trump met with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the White House on Tuesday and held meetings on a broad range of issues from terrorism to trade. Mr. Erdogan who was eager to find...
Global Geo-political Series: American Coup attempt should alarm everyone globally
May 17, 2017 08:18 am UTC| Commentary
The latest accusations against the US President Donald Trump are nothing short of an attempted coup. Washington Post reported that President Trump shared sensitive information on ISIS given by an ally of the United States...
May 16, 2017 15:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views
As if there wasnt enough controversy surrounding Sergey Kislyak. The Russian ambassador to the US at the centre of the Trump national security storm is set to become the United Nations head of counter-terrorism, probably...
As tensions in the region rise, Japan again debates its pacifist constitution
May 16, 2017 14:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Japan could finally be gearing up for the first-ever change to its constitution. In a recent video address to a pro-constitutional revision lobby group on the Constitution Day public holiday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight