China and Japan: A Century of Conflict

China and Japan, world’s two of the largest economies, have relations which are of utmost importance and very sensitive. The high level of trade between the two countries fails to give the true impression, which is an underlying and long-standing tension. The dynamics of these two countries have changed overtime. There was a time when...

US plans to withdraw from INF treaty with Russia, what will it result into?

Recently, President Donald Trump announced that the US would withdraw from bilateral treaty called the intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty, which it initially signed with Soviet Union in 1987 and after the collapse of Soviet Union, the treaty was sustained with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The treaty prohibits all these countries to manufacture and test...

Hyperinflation in Venezuela: Lessons from the past

Venezuela is facing a socio-economic and political crisis since 2010. The situation gets worse every day with continuing inflation. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects inflation to reach 1 million percentages by the end of 2018 in Venezuela. This is a condition of hyperinflation. The country faced severe problems when former President Hugo Chavez reduced...

The position of India in the geopolitics of India-Nepal-China triangle

Nepal is not just another neighbor to India and China. After China’s annexation of Tibet in 1951, Nepal has been acting as a buffer state between the two countries. India-Nepal relations can be traced back to 1950s when both the countries signed the Peace and Friendship Treaty with each other, under which Nepal allowed access...

India strengthens its defense capacity as it signs the COMCASA agreement with the United States.

On 6th September 2018, a 2+2 dialogue was held between India’s defense minister Nirmala Sitharam and minister of external affairs Sushma Swaraj and United States’ defense secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The main agenda of this meet was discussing regional security and ramp up defense ties with respect to joint development...