The foreign ministers of China, Japan, and South Korea are scheduled to convene in South Korea on Sunday with the aim of reinvigorating cooperation between the Asian neighbours and facilitating a trilateral summit. Beijing is worried that Washington and its main regional allies are growing their three-way relationship, even if China and the US have been patching up their poor relations, which included a summit between Presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden last month. To improve diplomatic and commercial relations, Beijing, Tokyo, and Seoul had decided to hold yearly summits starting in 2008. However, the plan has been derailed by…
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India as an emerging player and key to reckon with all the geopolitical volatility, can placed as an inevitable player in the international arena. This statement seems to agree with Norway in a recent media interview. Explicitly and wholeheartedly, Andreas Motzfeldt, the Deputy Foreign Minister of Norway stated that navigating the ongoing volatility is impossible without placing New Delhi as an inevitable player. Any global solution is not possible without India’s help- he further added. Speaking to the media, at the India-Nordic Summit, Mr Kravik described New Delhi as fundamental to progress in most of the significant issues in the…
The global community has once again become concerned about a new, mysterious pneumonic symptoms disease in China. Hospitals in China are struggling to get beds for the influx of children, suffering from undiagnosed pneumonia. The symptoms of the newly found disease are more common fever-type signals along with inflammation in the lungs. Though WHO has urged Beijing to submit the current data, still it warned the Chinese people to adopt precautionary measures like wearing masks and washing their hands in advance. As reported by Firstpost, the children seem to be more vulnerable in the context of this disease. The hospitals…
Japan’s alert warning system of the J series was triggered by the North Korean missile launch in the country’s southwestern Okinawa island. Amidst increasing security threat from North Korea, the government spokesperson of Japan, Hirokazu Matsuno has confirmed that Japan is still not sure of but way to investigate whether the spy satellite entered into orbit around the Earth. Earlier, Reuters reported that a recording video of the audio of the J-alert system warning the residents of a missile launch by North Korea. Hours later, the official statement came. The official statement seemed to have a vague idea about the…
In the midst of the current situation in Pakistan, the US legislative assembly have urged the federal government to postpone future aid and humanitarian assistance or any sort of help until Pakistan restores its law and order. The lawmakers requested the provinces to withhold future negotiation in any kind of aid and compel the country to restore its constitutional order by conducting free and fair elections. In a letter to state secretary Anthony Blinken, the lawmakers warned to withhold all assistance to Islamabad. Citing the issue of blasphemy, the lawmakers wrote to Blinken that the proposed changes to laws could…
The recently organized meetings in the third Belt and Road Forum by China, the absence of the Philippines have once again turned worrying in a short time. Amidst the recent tensions between Beijing and Manila, the absence of the Philippines from the bilaterally signed ties on BRI gives a signal of worsening the situation further. Both countries have to improve their communication channels to down the further escalation of the tensions. While Manila’s absence is not in a good light and a strong indication to Beijing that Manila is not going to accept any sort of aggressive and unprofessional activities…
As reported by India Today, The US and European countries are negotiating a plan to deploy an international peacekeeping force in the Gaza Strip post-Israel-Hamas conflicts. The Bloomberg report highlighted that Hamas, the Palestinian extremist group, already targeted innocent Israelis as their hostages. What is different in Israel’s approach than that of Hamas to targeting the civilians of the Gaza Strip? The people wanted to escape but they did not have any idea about this kind of devastation prior. Citing people’s compulsion, the pressure of a ceasefire on Israel is triggering day by day. The death toll is also on…
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar defended India’s move to purchase Russian crude oil despite having strict Western sanctions. He justified India’s way of dealing in times of crisis by saying that Indians are in priority for India in each inch of its foreign policy decisions. Purchasing oil from Russia has helped to meet India’s chunk requirement of crude oil for running its economy. Moreover, he also stated that being one of the major importers of crude oil in the world, India’s decision to purchase crude oil from Russia was one of the factors to check the global inflation, which has…
US President Joe Biden reiterated the need to reduce the aggressive actions by the Israeli forces. He urged for the less aggressive measures to the Israeli government. As per the media sources, Hamas has set up its headquarters in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. However, bombardment and rolling up of tanks to the main gates of the hospital should not be the means to defeat the militant group. The tussle between Israel and the Hamas group further increased when there was an attack on Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical infrastructure of the city. This has become the main centre of the…
The meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un took the centre point of concern because of the growing security partnership between the two. As per the geopolitical analysts, China did not give any clear stance on the growing partnership between the two, as China is well-calculated about its gain and loss from those ties simultaneously. China would benefit from the arms deal, as China is reluctant to provide any kind of direct military support to Russia. However, it does not want to see Russia in a defeating position. North Korea, is already largely considered…
