Month: August 2017
Venezuela has been in a state of chaos for most of the twenty-first century, having been ruled by socialist despot Hugo Chávez since 1999, who policies have resulted in intense inflation, widespread poverty, food shortages, and crime. Following a fourteen-year ...
D.P.R.K. has recently threatened the bombing of the island of Guam, containing more than a 160 000 Americans, and American military infrastructure. In the past, we’ve seen that D.P.R.K has consistently threatened the bombing of the USA. But does this ...
Since the Indian independence, relations between India and China have always been very difficult. The problems about their common border, particularly those defined by the McMahon line, and the Tibetan question never enabled to put in place peaceful and constructive ...
While North Korea’s recent nuclear ICBM tests significantly raised the level of fear in the United States, they were not a surprise. North Korea, long a nuclear state, is a dangerous nuclear proliferator that has shirked international commitments. Estimated Range ...
Whilst the world is caught up with the election of Donald Trump, and his radical policies, China continue to operate behind the scenes to expand its reach globally. China’s geopolitical status enhanced significantly over the years with influence over Africa, ...
The map above shows each country of the world separated by the percentage of billionaires into various types. The size of each country on the map is relative to its total number of the world’s billionaires. There are five categories ...
Henry Kissinger once said that “moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.” That is precisely Israel’s dilemma. When it shows moderation, its friends may see it as a virtue, but not necessarily its ...
Will an expanded Pacific Alliance be the successor to the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Fulfilling one of his most important campaign promises, Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) a few days after taking office in January. This action ...
In the early 1990’s, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori started a process of free-market reforms after strong tensions among the former President Alan Garcia and the US government and International Financial Institutions as well. Fujimori’s political and economic reforms reconfigured the ...
Despite being labeled as a developing country, the beautiful African continent lies scattered with poverty-stricken countries, battling against political strife, civil wars, poor economic development policies and the embezzlement of public funding. Africa is the second largest continent in the world ...