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US-China relations have always been tense, but in recent years the relationship between the two powers has stooped to its lowest level yet. Donald Trump introduced a series of tariffs and taxes on Chinese imports as part of his ‘trade war’ with the country, damaging the delicate relationship even more. US President Trump has long accused China of unfair trading practices and intellectual property theft, while in China, there is a perception that the US is trying to
India’s island diplomacy gains momentum
The Modi government’s outreach to the Indian Ocean island states serves crucial strategic objectives
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval recently visited Seychelles and Sri Lanka, respectively, to promote Island Diplomacy which assumes importance in the country’s foreign policy.
India officially acknowledged the importance of “Island Diplomacy” in its foreign policy orientation after reorganisation of the Ministry of External Affairs incorporated an Indo-Pacific Division and an Indian Ocean Region Division, only late last year.
In March 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with Doval and then Foreign Secretary Jaishankar visited Seychelles and was the first Indian leader to do so in over three decades. Modi also visited Mauritius and Sri Lanka. The Prime Minister said that India “attaches paramount importance to strengthening relations with this region, which is vital for India
Nolan Publishes Article on Guatemalan Child Migration
On November 13, 2020, Rachel Nolan, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, published an article with The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) on the history of Guatemalan child refugees and the crimes now underway in the United States migration system. This is the third article in series on child migration from the Infancias y Migración Working Group, an international interdisciplinary working group on child migration in the Americas–with participation from scholars in the U.S. and Latin America.
In the article, titled “Guatemalan Child Refugees, Then and Now,” Nolan discusses the atrocities carried out during the Guatemalan civil war, the existential threat the war was for the country’s children, and the global response to this refugee crisis. Nolan details the policies toward refugees in of both Mexico and the U.S., the lat
As the famous quote commonly attributed to US writer Mark Twain goes: “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.”
It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that while the case for the 2003 Iraq war has been largely discredited, an unnerving amount of propaganda spread by the US and UK governments at the time still has some purchase today.
For example, Gerd Nonneman, Professor of International Relations and Gulf Studies at Georgetown University Qatar, recently tweeted about Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD): “Saddam’s aim was to keep everyone at home & abroad guessing.” Similarly, a November Financial Times review by Chief Political Correspondent Philip Stephens of two books on UK intelligence matters noted the then Iraqi leader “believed his domestic authority in Iraq rested on a pretence that he still had WMD.”