Op-ed

Sway Samal China is less than ten days away from its 20th Party Congress. The changes will impact the Chinese Communist Party for the next five years, a monumental event that takes place every five years. President Xi Jinping is expected to stay in power in the following …

Hemand Adlaka India and China have separately frustrated and angered many in the West by refusing to condemn Russia’s military action on February 24. The two BRICS member countries’ neutrality is driven by their respective national interests. Therefore, it is a gross error to assume that the two …

Lily Ong In a 15th-century priory nestled away in a prestigious neighbourhood of Geneva, an exclusive audience gathered on the gorgeous grounds of a university before His Excellency Geoff Hoon, who had served as the Defence Minister of Britain in Tony Blair’s Cabinet. He was speaking as part …

Eric Zeusse  Following are excerpts from (which constitute only 22% of) Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech and his answers to questions at the 17 July 2022 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum Plenary session, where the moderator was Margarita Simonyan, whom Putin chose in 2005 to head the Russian …

Julia Melnikova European-Chinese relations have been on pause since the end of 2020. The politicisation of interaction, caused both by objective disproportions in the development of trade and investment partnerships, and by the desire of Brussels to control the relations of member states with China, became the main …

Global natural gas markets are set to remain tight next year, with lower gas flow from Russia to Europe, high gas prices, lower demand and the impact of energy saving measures, according to the International Energy Agency’s Gas Market Report Q4 2022 published Monday. As Russia’s curtailment of …

Commodity markets have been volatile as high interest rate environment continues amid rising inflation and recession concerns. As part of efforts to rein in soaring inflation, central banks of the UK, Norway, Switzerland, Taiwan, South Africa, Indonesia and the Philippines have made aggressive interest rate hikes recently. The …

Amr Ababakr In the first lines of the introduction to his most recent book, Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy, which was released this summer in the Penguin Random House Publishers in New York; Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger seems unintentionally, of course, to hand his …

This year’s theme – ‘New technologies for greener shipping’ – promotes innovation and solutions that support a transition in the sector. Maritime transport represents more than 80 per cent of global trade, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message for the Day. Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine …