In 1948, the British announced the creation of the state of Israel after failing to reconcile Muslims and Jews with the fall of the Ottomans. A conflict sprang out as the local Arabs objected. An enormous Arab coalition force consisting of Egypt, Transjordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Northern Yemen was routed by Israel. They still refer to the battle, which caused more than 700,000 Palestinians to lose their homes and become refugees, as “The Catastrophe,” or Al-Nakba.
Read moreUS arms supply to Ukraine is prolonging the war and destabilizing the world
According to the latest announcement from Joe Biden administration, the United States will give Ukraine extra security assistance worth $1 billion, which will be the largest one-time arms delivery since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. This package provides a significant amount of additional ammunition for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), 75,000 rounds…
Read morePelosi’s trip to Taiwan and a brewing storm in Indo Pacific
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…
Read moreGas crisis in Europe: winter is coming
After an earthquake caused an accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Germany would shut down its final three nuclear power plants by the end of the year. However, the foundation for this decision had already been laid by the previous Social Democrat-Green coalition government in 2000. In order to reach carbon reduction goals, it also intends to stop using coal power by 2038 at the latest, and preferably by 2035. Renewable energy source development, which surged at the beginning of the 2010s, has slowed down recently. Very recently, Germany, one of the biggest vocals of renewable and green energy, started firing up coal power plants. However, it was just the last year when Germany agreed to provide €237 million as soft loan for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in Bangladesh, exclusively aimed at limiting the number and operation of traditional coal-based power plants.
Read moreWhy should Bangladesh be reticent of borrowing money from the IMF and the World Bank?
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.
Read morePutin’s Iran visit and its geopolitical implications
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.
Read moreWith sheer hypocrisy, USA picks its ‘human rights report’ to demonize the government of Bangladesh
The west led by the USA acts as the world’s police and courts. In the banner of “human rights stand superior to state sovereignty,” they always want to meddle in the internal affairs of other nations and will even go to war to achieve this. Many people’s human rights have been gravely abused by such actions all around the world. Tens of thousands of people have died and tens of thousands more have been hurt or made homeless in the Iraq War alone. Still, some western nations are willing to lecture others on human rights issues and criticize other nations they don’t agree with since they market themselves as “developed” and “democracy.”These western nations, who fought two world wars and arming to the teeth for the third, view “human rights” as their own concept and believe that it can only be established in accordance with their norms. Their hypocrisy, in the name of ‘human rights’, will have terrible effects on the global human rights movement and the implementation of Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Read moreThe future of Japan and Bangladesh cooperation against the backdrop of a major power rivalry
However, Japan’s alignment with Quad and rising friction with China, a strategic partner of Bangladesh, is raising the chance of future complications for Bangladesh. Jolted by the Ukraine war and China’s assertiveness, Japan is looking to boost its defense capability, which is embraced a pacifist outlook after its defeat in the Second World War. Public opinion polls and commentators have found that since the end of the Ukraine conflict, the Japanese people have been steadily turning away from pacifism. While the world’s attention is on the situation in Russia and Ukraine, U.S. and NATO hostilities with China and North Korea are escalating substantially halfway across the globe in the Pacific Ocean, thus leading to the state of unease in Japan. Since the Obama administration’s “Pivot to Asia,” which was created in part to divert attention away from the decision to surge troops in Afghanistan and Iraq in the failed U.S. war strategies in the Middle East, the U.S. military’s naval and air presence in the Western Pacific has steadily increased.
Read moreWhy is Saudi Arabia hesitant to provide any strategic benefits to Washington?
Joe Biden may have made it obvious that the Middle East is not a top priority for his administration: Ukraine, China, and the US midterm elections are all more pressing matters. But when the Air Force One landed in Tel Aviv on 13 July afternoon for his first trip to the region as president, Biden…
Read moreIs there any exit route for impending energy crisis in Bangladesh amidst geopolitical turbulence?
More than 1.8 billion people who reside in South Asia need economic solvency, improvement in social indicators and peace through political stability. Development is being impeded by the intensifying geopolitical competition, particularly between and among China, Russia, and the United States. This “great power competition,” which includes the dispute over the South China Sea, is…
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