Issue Brief on “China’s Overtures in the Middle East”
In the past decade, China’s engagement with the Middle Eastern countries has been growing; a most recent example is Beijing’s role in Saudi-Iranian rapprochement...
Issue Brief on “The Trilateral Leaders’ Summit at Camp David- An Analysis”
On 18 August 2023, the first-ever stand-alone summit of top leaders of the U.S., Japan and Republic of Korea (ROK) was hosted by President...
Issue Brief on “China’s Internal Combustion Engine Automobile Industry”
Introduction
In 2009, China became world’s largest automobile manufacturing industry and since that time onwards, its research and development in automotive manufacturing is flourishing. According...
Issue Brief on “BRICS and Pakistan – Assessing Opportunities & Challenges”
In the age of intensifying bloc politics and increasing fluidity in contemporary international affairs, the XV BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, held on August 22-24,...
Issue Brief on “ASEAN Solidarity Exercise 2023 (ASEX 2023) in the South China Sea”
Introduction
From 5-7 September 2023, Indonesia hosted the 43rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Jakarta, and just after a fortnight i.e., from...
Issue Brief on “Health hazards caused by increasing air Pollution in Pakistan”
Background
The air quality in Pakistan’s major urban centres has considerably deteriorated over the past five years. Lahore and other cities regularly feature in the...
Issue Brief on “Pakistan’s Position on Second Annual Progress Report of the UN OEWG...
The Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) on the security of and in the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) 2021-2025 reached a consensus on...
Issue Brief on “‘India’, ‘Bharat’ or ‘Hindustan’: Old Tactics, But New Agendas of BJP’s...
“India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States,” stipulates the Indian constitution depicting the arduous debates that led Parliament to adopt both...
Issue Brief on “North Korea-Russia Relations: Post Putin-Kim Summit”
One of the most prominent highlights of September 2023 was the Summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un...
Issue Brief on “From Vision to Reality: A Decade of China’s Global Community of...
The Chinese vision for a global community of shared future is entrenched in the idea of building cooperation, mutual development, and peaceful coexistence among...
