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Pakistan’s Departure from GSP+ Principles: A Tragedy Unfolding Under EU’s Watch

by Dimitra Staikou “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” With these words from the Gita, Robert Oppenheimer realized that his creation, which began as a promise of scientific progress, had been transformed into an instrument of mass…

China Accelerates Expansion of Its National Emissions Trading Market to Drive Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

In a strategic effort to tackle climate change and advance towards a more sustainable economy, China has issued an official directive to expand and consolidate its National Emissions Trading System (ETS) by 2030. This pioneering system, currently focused mainly on…

Housing Ethnic Cleansing: How Airbnb Legitimizes Occupation

It seems like just yesterday, I was on my school’s campus having meetings with administrators, voicing demands to cut ties with Israel. Whether that was cancelling their study abroad trip to Israel or divesting from zionist institutions, the movement to…

Seoul City Hosts the Annual Global Startup Festival “Try Everything 2025”

For 2 days, from 11-12 September 2025, one of Seoul’s iconic landmarks, the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), welcomed local and global start-ups, government officials, investors, AI gurus, and aspiring young creative talents, along with the public, for the annual Try…

The SCO summit and the quest for economic justice in a multipolar world

The recent summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Beijing, often portrayed in headlines through images of missiles and military parades, carries a deeper and more enduring significance. Beyond the choreography of power lies an attempt to question the…

Forum on China-Africa Cooperation: 25 Years of Hope and Human Results in Education

The year 2025 marks a significant milestone in the history of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), which celebrates twenty-five years since its establishment in 2000. As we commemorate a quarter century of this alliance, the world must pause to…

Top US Officials Shared Ridiculous Reasons For Their Country’s Punitive Tariffs On India

They claim that it’s “profiteering” off of the Ukrainian Conflict and “funding Putin’s war machine”. The US punished India for its energy imports from Russia by imposing additional 25% tariffs on it, thus bringing their total tariffs to 50%, despite…

25th summit of SCO: “We must oppose cold war mentality and bloc confrontation, and promote a multipolar, just, and orderly world.”

Thus declared Xi Jinping before the leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) at its 2025 summit, a two-day meeting in the city of Tianjin, China In a global context dominated by tension, regional conflicts, and geopolitical disputes, the Chinese…

Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) declaration

The SCO Tianjin Summit 2025 is the 25th Heads of State Council meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which will is held from August 31 to September in Tianjin China. It will be the fifth time that China hosts…

Dealing with Bangladesh’s Bad Loan Crisis

Bangladesh’s banking sector is living with a problem everyone knows about but too many prefer to look away from: non-performing loans (NPLs). By the end of 2024, distressed assets such as loans that are defaulted, rescheduled, or written off had…

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