In this issue

I begin by paraphrasing WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s remarks to the media, briefing on COVID-19 on 29th April 2020. “As of tomorrow, it will be three months since I declared a public health emergency of international concern over the outbreak of novel coronavirus.

WHAT THE CORONAVIRUS MEANS FOR CHINA'S FOREIGN POLICY?

WHAT THE CORONAVIRUS MEANS FOR CHINA’S FOREIGN POLICY?

5 mins

SOFT-POWER DIPLOMACY OF CHINA IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES IN THE TIMES OF COVID-19

China is sending medical equipments and health care teams to third world countries to woo them and is attempting to become a benign global leader, at a time when the US is turning inwards. This commentary tries to look into; what is the relation between China and third-world nations during COVID-19? How China is providing aid to third-world countries by its Soft power diplomacy during COVID-19?

4 mins

CHINA'S MASK DIPLOMACY A FACE SAVING ACT

Ronald Reagan’s nine most terrifying words could be very well rephrased in the Chinese context today:

5 mins

China After Covid 19: Projections And Reality

China after Covid 19: projections and reality

7 mins

DESCENDING CHINA'S REVISIONIST WORLD ORDER: A CASE STUDY OF BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE

State Building of People’s Republic of China

7 mins

INDIA, CHINA MARK 70 YEARS OF DIPLOMATIC TIES

Both India and China have decided to celebrate the year 2020 with large scale functions and fanfare to mark the seventieth anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relations between the two newly emerged Asian nations, in April 1950. Currently, the situation has changed radically, out of the planned programmes how many can be implemented and to what extent and in what form has become a real question? The unexpected and totally cataclysmic outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic has upset the calculations and planning of national institutions and the public at large. Hence, it will be very difficult to predict the outcome of the planned programmes and celebrations at this juncture. Yet nobody can deny the significance of these relations in Asia and the world at large.

4 mins

Global COVID Pandemic WHO is responsible?

“News resources indicate that at least seven atypical pneumonia cases were reported in Wuhan, China…I would greatly appreciate it if you have relevant information to share with us.” -Taiwan Government’s e-mail to the WHO on 31st December, 2019. [released on 17.04.2020]

5 mins

ARE REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS HANDLING THE PANDEMIC CRISIS BETTER?

As nation after nation is enforcing the lockdown, borders have gone up and globalization has gone down. The pandemic hit the world as we know will unlikely to be the same, but regions as they remained relevant. A COVID-19 or Coronavirus, which was first identified in the city of Wuhan, central China, last December only has now spread throughout the globe. The pandemic is the greatest and most threatening since the flu of 1918-19 and world wars. It has not only altered the existing healthcare system of some of the developed countries of the world but, also brought all the activities of day to day to a standstill.

3 mins

Coronavirus Crisis And The Future Of The World Order

There is no doubt that the past few months have let countries scrambling to address the pandemic that has already infected 2.2 million lives and caused over 150,000 deaths. The scale of the geographic spread of infection led the World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare it as a pandemic on March 11. What leaders have not considered is that the pandemic is here to stay for some time and even if it were to end, the long-term impact is bound to change global politics forever.

5 mins

INDIA'S NEW GLOBAL IDENTITY MAGNANIMITY PREVAILS OVER NOTORIETY!

While the global pandemic due to the Coronavirus has vigorously shaken most of the prominent major powers like America, England, France, Italy, Germany and Spain to name a few, it has once again underscored the fact of eastward shifting global geopolitics in the world. Unfortunately, while China in the East is increasingly being condemned as the originator of the virus despite Beijing accusing to Washington for the same, India has, fortunately, emerged as a potential torch-bearer of humanity and human values, again in the East, by extending its humanitarian help like supplying medicines to many mighty powers like America, England, Germany, etc., and also sending its doctors to neighbouring countries in South Asia viz. Maldives and Sri Lanka.

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