All posts by "Chrishanth Nelson"

Chrishanth Nelson is a writer in Young Diplomats. He is based in Sri Lanka and writes articles on international relations, foreign policy, security issues and current affairs. Chrishanth has completed his Bachelors degree in Social Sciences and holds masters degrees in South Asian Studies (UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institute of South Asia Regional Cooperation, India) and Linguistics (University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka). contact: chrishanth123@gmail.com

Turkey is now in a tough position to choose between America’s F-35 advanced jets and Russia’s S-400 missile defence system as Washington has given a deadline to cancel its orders ...

More than 300 people including foreigners have been killed and some 500 were injured in coordinated simultaneous terrorist attacks in churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Sri ...

Though sanctions are not particularly effective as many political scientists believe, they have become a common diplomatic tool for nations especially after the end of Cold War. Nations and nongovernmental ...

Only US, Russia and China claimed the title of Space Power and now India has joined the list by shooting down a live satellite on the LEO (Low Earth Orbit) ...

North Korea had a couple of talks with the Trump administration but unfortunately all the attempts made from Trump’s side went futile. Trump wanted Kim to stop North Korea’s Intercontinental ...

Though the end of cold war has reduced the military expenditure drastically, a few nations such as the US continued to retain the higher level of expenditure on its military ...

The relations between Russia and the West have become strained since Russia made military incursions into Eastern Ukraine and annexed Crimea with its territory in 2014. As a result, it ...

BIMSTEC: India’s alternative to SAARC India’s interest towards the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) has been increased in recent years as the South Asian ...

Introduction The US and China are great powers and when it comes to them, diplomatic relations are far from simple. When Trump came to power, he praised Xi Jinping and ...