China’s reopening will impact prices, but it is not an inflation risk. It reflects an impressive domestic rebound, great regional opportunity and significant global spillovers. When Chinese policymakers began to prepare the reopening of the world’s second-largest economy, many international observers warned it would unleash inflationary headwinds. This was their assumption: As the world’s biggest factory and the second-largest economy […]

It is no secret that India’s relationship with Germany has traditionally lagged behind its relations with its other European partners such as France. Benign mutual neglect coupled with Germany’s primary focus on China are factors, but this appears to be changing rapidly. Chancellor Scholz’s two-day visit to India, that began on February 25, 2023, significantly coincided with the first anniversary […]

In 2021, the then-Chief of the United States Indo-Pacific Command, Philip Davidson, said that China may try to attack Taiwan by 2027; and in 2022, the Central Intelligence Agency Deputy Director, David Cohen, stated that Chinese President Xi Jinping wants the People’s Liberation Army to have the capability to take control of Taiwan by force by 2027. In light of […]

The saying that terrorists have no religion was once again proven right last Tuesday when two terrorists violated the sanctity of Jamia Masjid in Padgampora village of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district by not only hiding inside but even attacking security forces from within the mosque. While the news that the mosque suffered no structural damage in the exchange of fire […]

Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s visit to the Philippines signals a common platform of shared threats, worries and needs. Both face the same threat, and both have the same vulnerability in traditional and non traditional challenges. Manila at least has greater US assurances of support and therefore has greater deterrence capacity with clearer military support to deter greater Beijing’s hard-core […]

On March 3, 2023, two Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) Pamed Dalam (armed squad) members, identified as Sodi Kame and Sodi Bandu, and a sympathiser, Sodi Chanti, were arrested by the Police from the Paidigudem Forest area on the Telangana-Chhattisgarh border in the Bhadradri Kothagudem District. Vineeth G., Superintendent of Police (SP), disclosed that the arrested Maoists had come to […]

The results of Assembly Elections of three northeastern states – Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura – declared on March 2, 2023, provides the ruling party at the Centre, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), another opportunity to resolve the issues that have the potential to resurrect insurgencies in these three states in particular, and the region at large. However, the experiences of […]

The term ‘Asian century’ is a synecdoche of the ascendancy of China, India, and other countries of the region in political and economic affairs of the international system. India constitutes a predominant facet of this neologism. The greatness of Indian economy was reflected in 2022 by the Bloomberg index which established that India has surpassed Britain to become fifth biggest […]

China’s Lianghui, or the Two Sessions, the meetings of parliament and the political advisory body, will kick off on March 4, and all eyes are on possible significant new changes, policies, and priorities of the country that will follow suit this year. In terms of the economy, the focus of the meetings is on the stabilization of the economy. Since […]

China’s Lianghui (literally, “Two Sessions”) for the year 2023, the annual meetings of the legislature and political advisory body, is set to begin this weekend, and this year’s session is notable for several reasons. Firstly, it will be the first Lianghui since the 20th National Congress. Additionally, it will be the first session of both the National People’s Congress and […]