US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's Monday announcement of the US' formal rejection of China's claims in the South China Sea means that Washington is no longer pretending to remain neutral on territorial disputes in the waters. It signals the US has decided to take a clear-cut po...

The global spread of COVID-19 has exposed the world’s largest and densest urban centres to bearing the brunt of this pandemic. The invisible virus has forced thriving metropolises to empty their streets and shops to dead spaces absent of people and activity. It even triggers the...

The Washington Consensus has been one of the US' ideological cornerstones in the post-Cold War era's liberal international order. This political consensus has fostered economic policies that have had deleterious impacts on countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America an...

New Delhi reportedly won't review its decision not to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). Top official sources were quoted as saying New Delhi won't join any trade agreement where China is a member, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic and the border st...

The recent China-India border clash in the Galwan Valley reveals that the existing border control mechanisms between China and India no longer meet the actual needs of the two emerging powers. In the larger picture, it illuminates the reality that China-India relations should be ...