Image Courtesy: The Atlantic Introduction The Red Sea is one of the world's most important trade routes, with its southern tip in the Bab el-Mandeb strait (between Yemen and Djibouti) and its northern edge in the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Aqaba (Shay, 2023). The area serves as a gateway to world energy supplies and trade. The Republic of Djibouti is geographically located at the crossroads of Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Its access is pivotal to China's policy to

Image Courtesy: The Guardian When Donald Trump announced that the G2 would convene shortly, it seemed as though the Thucydides Trap that had defined Sino-American relations for decades had suddenly loosened its grip, challenging decades of scholarship predicting inevitable confrontation between a rising power and an established hegemon. Amid years of escalating rivalry, trade wars, technological decoupling, and accusations of authoritarianism versus democratic decline, the no

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The following is an address by Shri. MR Sivaraman, IAS (Retd.) delivered at the Stella Maris College, Chennai dated September 9, 2025, on...

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The Chennai Centre for China Studies (C3S), in collaboration with the U.S. Consulate General in Chennai, hosted a panel discussion titled...

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