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Rising Powers, Deepening Rivalry: The Implications of India-China Tensions

April 9, 2023

According to numerous international media sources, India, on 3rd of April 2023, has reacted strongly to China’s recent attempts to rename a number of locations in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. This is in light of rumors that eleven locations along a contentious Himalayan border area within the state have received new names from China. This article details the main disagreements between India and China after the current incident.

Categories: Indo-Pacific regions / South Asia

Striking a Delicate Balance: Bangladesh’s Geostrategic Dance between the East and West

March 26, 2023

Bangladesh’s strategic importance in the Indian Ocean region has piqued the West’s interest. Because of its geographical location, which connects South Asia and Southeast Asia, the country is an important player in regional connectivity initiatives such as the Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS). The IPS, which is led by the United States, Japan, Australia, and India, seeks to promote a free, open, and inclusive regional order with a focus on improving connectivity, maritime security, and economic growth.

Categories: Indo-Pacific regions

The State of Democracy in Bangladesh

February 14, 2023February 14, 2023

Democracy is an ancient concept of governance that has been around for centuries. It ensures that the voices and needs of the people are heard and taken into account when making decisions. It is evident that no society can be founded without democratic values, even before the earliest documented democracy in Greece. This video is a semi-academic discussion on democracy in Bangladesh. Watch the video to learn more.

Categories: Indo-Pacific regions / South Asia

SCO summit rings the bell for multipolar world order

September 23, 2022

The SCO’s evolving multilateral cooperation structures, which gather countries focusing on economic development independent from the nebulous, hegemonic “rules-based order,” are aligned with the BRI’s emphasis on trade and connectivity. Even the Modi government in India is reconsidering its reliance on western blocs, where New Delhi is at best a neo-colonized “partner.”

How the IMF fishes in troubled waters

September 21, 2022

However, the demonic deep dark state was opposed to cooperating with ‘autonomous’ nations. They all had to abide by the orders sent from on high by the Gates, Rockefeller, Soros, and other wealthy elite, who would soon be joined by Klaus Schwab, the main henchman of the World Economic Forum. Brazil suddenly experiences a sharp increase in new “cases,” with no questions asked and extensive testing, despite the fact that the famed PCR tests, according to the majority of reputable scientists, are useless (only sold and corrupted scientists, those paid by national authorities, would still insist on the RT-PCR tests). As the Brazilian economy collapses and Bolsonaro contracts the virus, the death toll rises rapidly.

D-8 can play a pivotal role in multipolar world

September 13, 2022

The present world economic scenario offers D-8 a broadened scope. The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) multilateral trade regime lost its momentum as a result of wealthy countries’ noncompliance and member states’ lack of cooperation. The lengthy characteristics of the WTO’s system may be due to international politics and disagreements between the USA and China, LDC versus developed members, and lastly the voluntary nature of implementation capacity.

Categories: Central Asia / East Asia / Indo-Pacific regions / Middle East / South Asia

Exploring Dhaka’s options in a multipolar world

August 25, 2022

In its interactions with more powerful and adversarial nations thus far, Bangladesh has demonstrated diplomatic maturity and poise. A troubled polarization of the region between China and India has resulted from the Bay of Bengal’s recent reemergence of its strategic significance. The US involvement in the Indo-Pacific area has also increased, and Washington is working harder than ever to restrict China by establishing an axis with India in the Bay of Bengal. Bangladesh, an Indian Ocean littoral nation, has assumed a more significant role in these circumstances. In the midst of this escalating geopolitical conflict, it has had to play smart.

Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan and a brewing storm in Indo Pacific

August 7, 2022

On 3 August 2022, the US-China ties reach a new low when US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi touched down in Taiwan. Pelosi is now the highest US official who visited the island in 25 years, despite warnings from other top Washington officials, but the situation is very different from what it was then. As a…

Categories: America / Indo-Pacific regions

Why should Bangladesh be reticent of borrowing money from the IMF and the World Bank?

July 26, 2022

Is the nation and society merely a slave labor camp, a source of raw materials, and a captive market for the economies of the west, where the populace consumes goods, they do not produce? If not, society, the economy, and the politics must be built up to foster and direct everyone’s efforts toward a different set of objectives and the institutions that may help them be achieved. Before interacting with the economies of the west, Bangladesh, a big part of eastern civilizations, must also figure out how to group its competitive advantages, turn them into a market strength, and connect them regionally. New options must be dotted upon, to circumvent unfair and unjustified US-led western sanctions. If necessary, bilateral and multilateral trade must be carried through alternative currencies.

Categories: America / Indo-Pacific regions / South Asia / Western Europe

Putin’s Iran visit and its geopolitical implications

July 24, 2022

Moscow is searching for new venues now that its connections to Europe have been severed, and the huge region of Middle East, with all of its intricacies, presents a welcome chance. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited Algeria, Bahrain, Oman, and Saudi Arabia before the trips of the Russian President, where he also had meetings with peers from the nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council. At this time, it appears that Russia’s relations with the West, specifically Europe, are beyond repair, and Moscow appears to have undertaken a clear and decisive pivot eastward and southern, toward Asia. More importantly, Russia is acting as a guarantor to maintain the balance between Turkey, Iran and the Arab world. And for a proper balance, all parties are pursuing a strategy that can be described as compartmentalized policies for each country in order to achieve a greater collective result that satisfies domestic objectives.