Modi’s silence on Xi’s being elected party chief for a third term is but the latest sign of a deteriorating relationship. India-China relations, never really happy, are at a new low now. There were signs of a rapprochement in the first six years of Modi’s Premiership, but the situation deteriorated sharply after the deadly clashes on the border in 2020. […]
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China, Russia And South Africa Perspectives On BRICS Expansion – OpEd
Within the current global geopolitical changes, growing support is fast underway to give enough preparations for Saudi Arabia and possible a few others to join BRICS, an organization made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. China will hand over the chair to South Africa early 2023. China and Russia have been pushing for the expansion of BRICS, […]
Read more ›Why Don’t Rich Muslim States Give More Aid To Afghanistan? – Analysis
More than 10 months after the United Nations launched its largest ever single-country appeal to mitigate the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, less than half of the appeal has been funded, with Muslim governments conspicuously missing on the list of major donors. “Afghanistan is facing a harsh winter,” Tomas Niklasson, European Union special envoy for Afghanistan, warned in a Twitter thread […]
Read more ›India’s Fickle Geostrategic Framework – Analysis
In October 2022, India abstained from voting in a UN Security Council draft resolution against Russia’s annexation of areas of Ukrainian territory it has seized. This passive support for Vladimir Putin’s imperialism is at odds with India’s membership of the Quad — the other three Quad nations voted to condemn Russian aggression. India’s vote underlines that on defence and security […]
Read more ›Commerce ministry to provide discounted coal to Kabul residents this winter
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) says it will distribute 400,000 tons of coal at a discounted rate to Kabul city residents in order to prevent a sharp rise in fuel prices this winter. The decision was made by a special fuel price control commission headed by the deputy prime minister Abdul Ghani Baradar. According to Abdul Salam Jawad, […]
Read more ›IEA rejects ‘rumors’ of meeting with US
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) rejects claims that a meeting will be held between IEA members and senior US officials in Doha, the ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement late Saturday. “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan rejects rumors that Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Baradar Akhund would meet with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and David Samuel Cohen, […]
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