Given Bhutan’s strategic importance, India cannot ignore the tiny buffer state and should always be sensitive to its relations to create a long-term relationship.
Just when it seemed that the time for intensification of global governance has arrived, the institutional-carriers of the process have chosen to stay dormant, miserably failing to rise to the occasion.
Perhaps the only silver line for Bangladesh’s economy amidst the lockdown is that Bangladesh Bank has a reserve of 33 billion dollars, which will give the country some cushion.
It seems that the final scale of the disease and deaths and the effects of the economic crisis will determine the attitude of European societies towards China.
While some countries have come forward with healthcare aid for the poor ones, others have tried to use this threat to further the rhetoric of isolationism, protectionism, and hyper-nationalism as well as geo-political and geo-economic…
China has perennially thrived to topple the American march and gain more substantial geo-political and geo-economic influence. The trade deal in 2019 appeared to be a neo détente between the twin powers.
The threat of retaliation, though unspecified, from the US President, could have also been a factor, which triggered the near-immediate withdrawal on the drug export moratorium as India has a large export surplus with the…
The HCQ diplomacy will benefit India on various fronts but most significantly in boosting India’s ‘Soft Power’.
Organizations like the Tablighi Jamaat and others need to take a conscious call and instantly ban all their congregations for central prayers and religious meetings. Prevention is better than cure.
