... Seventh Fleet based in the region can block quite easily. Today, pipelines running through Myanmar give China direct access to the Indian Ocean. Thus, in 2013, a pipeline with a capacity of 12 billion cubic metres became operational, transporting gas from the ... ...
about 8 per cent of all the oil imported by China.
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The implementation of these projects has allowed thousands of kilometres of the transportation route to be cut out when transporting hydrocarbons from the Middle East and Africa,...
... not attractive for North Korea in this capacity.
Are there any risks of shrinking Russian-Indian cooperation in strategic areas, such as security, energy, military and technical cooperation, in view of the growing activity of Russia’s rivals in India, primarily the USA and France?
I would not call it risky. India has a clear and quite distinct trend towards transformation into a regional power at the very least, and into a global one, in prospect. If this is so, we can ask the question: what nation with such ambitions ...
... past fifty years. Washington has so far not found a balance between defending its own national interests and acting with global responsibility, and this may become a critical obstacle to building a new world order in the foreseeable future.
China and India: Facets of Self-Limitation
The world’s second most powerful and influential country, China, has made much more progress in this respect over the last several decades. In the 1960s–1970s, the country’s unpredictability and ideological ...
... designed to make the group a key player in the global food security regime. But they did. Now the world is waiting.
From a moral and business ethics perspective the effort makes sense and can add value to the BRICS brand.
But success depends on China, India and Brazil, who are impacted by drought and infrastructure problems that step on their economic performance. And Russia is dealing with a sanctions regime that includes food, orchestrated by Washington and its European allies.
BRICS food security....
... massive domestic problem for Pakistan. Pakistan’s request for Reaper technology from the U.S. has been long-standing. The refusal has been based on successive American presidential administrations feeling Pakistan was not ‘capable of handling such ... ... After all, the aforementioned Israeli Heron-1 platform has already been sold in recent years to Brazil, France, Germany, and India. Greater Asia Singapore joined the above list of Heron-1 acquirers in 2012. Unlike other countries, Singapore emphasized ...
Narendra Modi’s atomic diplomacy
A breakthrough in negotiations between New Delhi and Washington on nuclear energy cooperation is an undeniable diplomatic success of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The details of the agreement that was reached are virtually unknown. However, it is already clear that the agreement could have a significant impact not only on the development of relations between India and its neighbors,...
... revenue generating power of the major traditional steel powers.
Largest Steel Companies (in billions of Euros) from January through October 2013
1 Arcelor Mittal Lux. 56.8 billion
2 Nippon Sumitomo Japan 36.3
3 Posco S.Korea 32.9
4 JFF Japan 20.0
5 Tata India 17.5
6 Bao China 15.8
7 Nucor USA 14.3
8 Gerdau Brasil 13.9
9 U.S. Steel USA 13.1
10 Thyssen-Krupp Ger. 11.5
11 VoestAlpine Austria 11.2
12 Evraz Russia 9.4
13 Severstal Russia 9.0
14 China Steel Taiwan 8.5
15 NLMK Russia 8.2
Total in October 2013 Euros = 278.4 billion
Total in ...
The meeting of Russian, Indian and Chinese foreign ministers in Beijing early February seems to have been of much greater significance than most of their previous meetings. As a matter of fact, it took place almost immediately after President Obama’s trip to India, where ...
... whatever surfaced, it could be described as the success of the visit.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi used his U.S. visit to trump up his triumph in the Parliamentary elections earlier this year by staging an impressive, Bollywood-style rally of 20 thousand members of the Indian diaspora in New York’s Madison Square Garden.
It was a signal to the White House that its decision of revoking Modi’s U.S. travel visa in 2005 over alleged involvement in anti-Muslim riots in his home state of Gujarat was a wrong diplomatic ...
Regular symposium “Future of Global Governance: a View from the U.S.A., Russia, China and India” was held in Beijing under the auspices of the Carnegie Corporation of New York to gather experts on financial and economic risks, world policy and international relations.
Russia was represented by RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeyev, as ...
