January 2022

 The Olympic Games with roots in ancient time 776 B.C. The international Olympic Committee(IOC) was founded in 1894 with first Summer Olympics started in 1896. Figure skating was added in 1908 Summer Olympics and it and Ice Hockey were added in 1920. The first Winter Olympics was held in 1924 with Summer Olympics in the same year continued every four years till 1992. Starting 1994, the Winter...

 No doubt, the Corona-virus has been the major challenge to mankind in the past two years. We hope that the scientific and healthcare communities will develop an effective vaccine soon to terminate the pandemic. However, during the past two years, one other disturbing fact that is entirely human controllable is the fake news and dishonest journalism phenomenon. This phenomenon grew rampant on...

 No doubt, the Corona-virus has been the major challenge to mankind in the past two years. We hope that the scientific and healthcare communities will develop an effective vaccine soon to terminate the pandemic. However, during the past two years, one other disturbing fact that is entirely human controllable is the fake news and dishonest journalism phenomenon. This phenomenon grew rampant on...

​ Nowadays, international diplomatic relations are inevitably revolving around the relations between China and the United States. The deterioration of US-China relations has caused a lot of diplomatic waves. First of all, Trump started a targeted trade war with China, which also impacted other countries, later the trade war was coupled with the suppression of China’s tech companies doing...

​ Nowadays, international diplomatic relations are inevitably revolving around the relations between China and the United States. The deterioration of US-China relations has caused a lot of diplomatic waves. First of all, Trump started a targeted trade war with China, which also impacted other countries, later the trade war was coupled with the suppression of China’s tech companies doing...

​      The fact that humans are highly intelligent species on Earth and can adapt to the changing environment and constantly evolve is simply because humans can form society, help each other, and develop civilization progressively. Unfortunately, during the long history of human development, there are differences in progress in different parts of the world owing to geographical...

​ History of The Cold War The Cold War (1946-1991) literally started right after WW II (1939-1945). The Russian Bolshevik revolution took place in 1917 overthrew the Czar Nicholas II and after a few years of civil war, a socialist state emerged. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) grew to 12 states; Joseph Stalin took over the control of the government when Vladimir Lenin died...

      For the first time, I have read two articles in Foreign Affairs(FA) containing an essay written by an American political scientist, a rebuttal by another American military strategy analyst and the counter arguments on the rebuttal from the original author on a sensitive topic – U.S. military strategy and national security. I applaud FA for publishing these articles....

Happy New Year to our readers! When we looked back 2021 reviewing the foreign affairs on the world stage, we saw familiar and new intensified issues, democracy versus authoritarianism, impact of climate change, new waves of pandemic threat (not only on human health and lives but also on people’s productivity and world economy), besides trouble spot like Ukraine, the U.S.- China conflict escalated...