Category Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies

Rising Conflict in the China-US Tech Landscape

The year 2025 has begun on a bad note for Chinese tech companies with the United States (US) designating social media and gaming giant, Tencent, and battery manufacturer Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) as military companies. Tencent's interests span the spheres of finance, cloud computing, media, messaging, video-streaming, and movie production. Under American law, a list of entities that may be aiding and furthering the Communist Party of China's military-civil fusion strategy, which aims to leverage private firms in improving technologies that have defense applications, must be maintained.

President Trump’s ‘Golden Era’: A Period of Promise and Peril

President Donald Trump proclaiming that the ‘Golden age of USA’ begins now as he dismantled many of the orders and schemes and policy choices of the Biden Administration. He did not spare the previous administration recounting their failures and wrong foreign and domestic policy choices terming them as ‘Catalogue of Catastrophe‘ in front of squirming Presidents Biden ,Clinton and Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris.

An Uneasy Israel-Hamas Ceasefire: The First Step to Resolution

'Touch and Go’ has really defined the efforts by the US, Qatar, and Egypt to bring about some kind of ceasefire and cessation of hostilities and some hope for besieged and beleaguered Palestinians, particularly in Gaza, and above all for the hapless Israeli hostages waiting to be released for the last 15 months in the Israel-Hamas war that started with Hamas’ terror attacks on Israeli civilians on October 7.

AI’s Potential: Boosting Productivity Without Displacing Jobs

The week in review has been notable for decline — of stock market indices, the rupee, and economic growth. In Canada, Justin Trudeau, for long the Prince Charming of the world’s liberals, also declined, in charisma and power. He resigned as leader of the Liberal Party and prime minister. This is likely to lead to elections earlier than the ones scheduled for November.

China’s Strategic Entry into Panama: A New Era in Geopolitics?

What if China were to offer a mutual defence pact to Panama, given the background of prezelect Trump’s threat to take over Panama Canal, acquire Greenland and incorporate Canada as another state of the US of A?

Before anyone harrumphs a resolve to eat his Panama hat if China were to do anything of the sort, let me clarify this is purely a thought experiment, not any strategic leak from Beijing’s mandarins.

After the Cold War, US had been hailed as the world’s sole superpower. Its military spend is bigger than the combined spend of the next seven largest defence spenders. Its unified commands enable it to deliver coordinated attacks from land, water, air, outer space, and cyberspace. Further, it can draw on Silicon Valley warriors like Palantir, whose motto is dominance in decision making, to produce actionable intelligence from real time data derived from disparate sources.

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