Trump’s visit certainly was much more than a symbolic gesture and a political win. South Korea’s President called the summit and end of mutual hostility between the two countries. The visit also has a hidden message to China, that the US no more needs China as a mediator for the negotiations.
The terror attacks in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday that killed over 300 people and injured more than 500 in three Churches and three hotels has once again showed the ideological spread of the Islamic State (ISIS).
In the contemporary moment in global politics, where the United States foreign policy is capricious and unpredictable while China’s foreign policy is making purposeful moves towards global domination, it is important that the South Korea-India partnership grows and consolidates through advantages of collaboration which can and thus prove to be a big step in maintaining stability in the Indo-Pacific region.
The process of urbanisation due to migration leads to unsanitary living conditions and cause of public health issue and problems in cities.
Trump’s opinions on trade, North Korea and defense burden sharing have kept Tokyo apprehensive. In a bid to please the mercurial US President with such lavish state supervised events, PM Abe has put all bets on “entertainment diplomacy”.
Waking up to the impending threat from China to its technological competitiveness, the United States has adopted various measures to plug the leakage of critical technologies to China.
Many South East Asian analysts claim that Vietnam is capable of countering Chinese dominance in a practical sense.
As commander in chief of the most powerful military in the world, I spend a lot of time brooding over these issues. And I’m not satisfied we’ve got it perfect yet.
Both India and US are transitioning to new roles in the international system, where the former is looking for a greater say in managing global problems while the latter, which has been accustomed to leading alone, is looking to expand the regional role and preserve its interests more effectively.
Elections are testing times for democracies, and political parties resort to a number of ways for vote gains and in the current scenario, the role of social media is ever growing.