Global Affairs
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@petphysfun @Goitericus Nice find! So I just looked it up for a list of Switzerland organizations and WEF is indeed on it. Scroll down to Documents for PDF. They don't have it in t...
This shouldn't have come to this far but Islamists & their friends in the West have compelled Israel to do this https://t.co/aAE0PF9brv
UNGA speeches are normally boilerplate affairs, apart from the odd Chavez-devil spectacular, and not worth much comment. But this deserves some attention, especially because of the...
#MintPlainFacts | Starting today, Mint’s Plain Facts section will bring out a monthly update on key global economic data to thread together the biggest developments that are worth...
"most reviews by Western critics are predictably snarky. No such thing as the "so-called" Global South, they insist. It's just a disparate, squabbling group of states, with nothing...
The G20 Summit is over The bottom line? India got pretty much everything it wanted Here's everything India achieved in 10 tweets 🧵 https://t.co/IhLkE2g48A
1/10 While I agree with much of what El-Erian says in this piece, especially his point that the stimulus many are hoping for, expecting it to "reinvigorate domestic growth and rest...
The General Debate of the 78th session of the UNGA will start on September 19. Since Xi Jinping assumed power, 🇨🇳 has increased its influence within the UN system🇺🇳. How has 🇨🇳’s...
Dr. S Jaishankar is one of the world's finest diplomats His goal: to make India a great power BUT, how does he intend to make that happen? In 2020, he laid out how he sees the w...
Perhaps the most boring chart in the world The shares of the major currencies in global reserves, as reported to the IMF. 1/ https://t.co/hObWwPleRw
After the global financial crisis, China become a construction dependent economy. Great Rogoff and Yang chart highlighted by @MESandbu today 1/ https://t.co/yAPn57xqNp
Japan has 17 million unemployed university graduates in their 30s and 40s, living with their parents and facing certain old-age poverty. How did this happen?
1/5 "Many economists worry that a reversal of this century’s boom in trade would carry a heavy economic cost, bringing higher prices and lower efficiency." This is such convention...
On July 25, 🇨🇳 top diplomat and new & former FM, Wang Yi, attended the 13th Meeting of BRICS Nat. Security Advisers & High Representatives on National Security in 🇿🇦. He proposed...
Some key points from this: "As India grows, our contribution towards global good will further increase, and our capabilities and resources will continue to be directed towards the...
▪️Zahoor Mistry - 1999 IC-814 hijacker (shot dead in Karachi on 01 Mar 2022 by unknown gunmen) ▪️Ripudaman Singh Malik - 1985 Air India bombing (shot dead in Surrey on 14 Jul 2022...
"it is becoming clear that rather than trying to comprehensively revise the existing order or replace it with something else, Chinese strategists have set about making the best of...
Fascinating results of the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer, revealing once more the collapse of trust and severe polarization of society in the West vs "the rest", and particularly vs...
“The combined GDP of China, India, Brazil, Russia and Saudi Arabia is $29 trillion, or 28% of the world's nominal GDP. If we use purchasing power parity (PPP) to measure GDP, the s...
The Toronto Protocols - Bread and Circus This secret meeting was organized by the 6.6.6. - those who run the 6 largest banks in the world, the 6 largest energy consortia, and the...
1/ Beyond multipolarity: on India and the emerging bipolar world https://t.co/QPquIE7Yzh
The 0.1% of ideas this week. The rabbit holes I've gone down -- without the distractions. 7 best examples: https://t.co/yM2D4RDn6y
How many of these have been covered by you all for prelims in IR? i) Fab 4 alliance ii) Partnership for global infra & investment iii) Paasikivi line iv) Shanghai communique v) Gl...
Did you know that Australia almost paid off its national debt? They got it down to 4.7% of GDP. That shows it's possible. https://t.co/nAzl1sXZzA https://t.co/GVT0pq5ptf