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Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 1, 2018
U.S.-South Korea alliance strained
The U.S. and South Korea have spent almost seven decades honing their preparedness for war. Now fears are growing among the alliance’s proponents that extended peace talks are eroding that advantage…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Oct 31, 2018
More tariffs if talks fail: US
The US is preparing to announce by early December tariffs on all remaining Chinese imports if talks next month between presidents Donald Trump and Mr Xi Jinping fail to ease the trade war. The United…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Oct 31, 2018
Brazil’s President Threatens the Amazon
Brazilian Preisdent Elect Jair Bolsonaro has spoken strongly in favour of polices that further development at great cost to the environment. He has plans of development projects in the amazon and has…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Oct 31, 2018
India not compelled into US Defence Deals
The United States Consul General in Mumbai has stated that India would not be forced to purchase F-16 fighter aircraft from the U.S in order to avoid American sanctions. India has been concerned…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Oct 30, 2018
CPTPP ready to take effect
According to a government official, Canada has become the fifth country to sign off on the sprawling Japan-led CPTPP (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership). Speaking…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Oct 30, 2018
Sri Lankan Crisis – ' An international conspiracy '
Violence erupts in Sri Lanka after Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sacked by President Sirisena. He has been replaced by ex-President Mahinde Rajapaksa, who is credited with a proclivity to…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Oct 30, 2018
Silicon Valley stocks routed amidst low earnings
Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc. tumbled in the wake of disappointing revenue growth, and it cost investors big money. The losses wiped out $82 billion in stock-market value, a milestone that brings…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Oct 28, 2018
Israeli Prime Minister Visits Oman
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Visits Oman, the first such visit by an Israeli prime minister in 22 years and a sign of closer ties for Israel with an influential Persian Gulf nation that…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Oct 28, 2018
Beijing wary of Bolsanaro’s anti-China rants
The Chinese government is trying to make peace with Brazil’s leading presidential candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, whose China-bashing threatens to chill a profitable trading relationship that has…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Oct 28, 2018
Iranian boats shadow U.S. warship
Iranian boats closely shadowed an American warship in the Persian Gulf on Friday, underscoring the potential for renewed maritime hostility between the United States and Iran. The US official…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Oct 27, 2018
Belgium selects the F-35
Belgium said it had chosen to buy US-made F-35 stealth warplanes over the Eurofighter Typhoon, which critics call a blow to the EU’s bid to build its own defences. Although Belgium is a key NATO ally…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Oct 27, 2018
EU urges arms embargo on Saudi Arabia
The European Parliament passed a nonbinding resolution on Thursday condemning the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and urging a European Union-wide arms embargo on Saudi Arabia.
The arms…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Oct 26, 2018
Asian markets fall on geopolitical fears
Markets in Asia tumbled Thursday on the back of a sharp fall in U.S. markets that erased all the gains made this year, as investor concerns mount that economic growth is peaking amid an uncertain…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Oct 26, 2018
EU bans single-use Plastic
The European Parliament has voted for a complete ban on a range of single-use plastics across the union in a bid to stop pollution of the oceans. This vote comes at the heels of a critical report…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Oct 26, 2018
EU rejects Italy’s budget proposals
The European Union (EU) for the first time sent back a member state's proposed budget because it violated the bloc's fiscal laws and posed unacceptable risks. Italy’s coalition populist government…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Oct 26, 2018
Russia warns European nations
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that if the United States deploys intermediate-range missiles in Europe, Russia will have to target the nations that would host them.
The US had…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Oct 25, 2018
Putin and Trump to meet in Paris
Vladimir Putin is scheduled to meet Donald Trump in Paris after the later threatened to leave Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty. In mid-November 2016 shortly after the election of Donald Trump…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Oct 25, 2018
Saudi agrees to a $6bn loan for Pakistan
Saudi Arabia agreed to give support worth at least $6bn to Pakistan to help the south Asian country avert a balance of payments crisis. Pakistan has only about 8 weeks’ worth of foreign reserves…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Oct 25, 2018
Saudi’s Weakened Position
The latest revelations in Jamal Khashoggi’s murder at the Saudi Arabian embassy seem to implicate those at the highest echelons of power in the kingdom. Some of President Trump and other western…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Oct 23, 2018
Koreas to Disarm Joint Security Area
North Korea, South Korea & the UN have agreed to further discuss plans to disarm Joint Security Area in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ ) where the troops from the Korean peninsula face…