As Pakistan braces for traditional power-play in its neighbourhood along with the emergence of advanced and unregulated technologies, there are legitimate concerns about the existing organisational structure of the Foreign…

In January 2020, President Trump signed phase-I of the trade deal with China’s Vice Premier Liu He. Some people and officials are hoping that this trade deal is a great…

Recently, India announced to stay out of the historic free trade agreement of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). This trade pact has been considered the net economic engine of Indo-Pacific…

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) proposed by the Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013, embodies China’s modern strategy of resuscitating the silk route and exporting China’s development model across…

The values of globalization, multilateralism and free trade have been the sine qua non of the United States’ (US) policies since the introduction of Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points. The materialization…

John Major, the former conservative Prime Minister following Margaret Thatcher, made headlines last week when he offered his opinion to a debate that has reverberated through much of UK and…

Intentions are one thing but results are entirely another thing. That is precisely what usually happens with protectionist policies: they are aimed at doing one thing, instead end up doing…

To forecast the Great War, amid the United States and China, I have invited some old friends from a very great distance. Greetings! ‘Chanakya, Machiavelli, Thucydides, John Thibaut, Woodrow Wilson…

Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates once claimed, “A bad year in China is going to be a great year in any other country”. Though the statement itself is…

Zheng He, an eminent 15th century Chinese explorer, set foot on the northern coasts of Kenya a long time before Columbus discovered the United States. There are records of trade…