Shakeel Ahmad Ramay

The middleman is an evil and responsible for all ills of agriculture and farmers’ miseries. This is the prevailing narrative in government circles these days. We can find many government officials and advisors, busy preaching the need to eliminate the role of middleman. It is good that the government has realised middleman are the exploitative […]

President Trump came into power by championing the anti-China rhetoric. Trump administration launched a multifaceted war to squeeze and contain China. They used all tools including human rights, democracy and debt trap to achieve the objective. Hong Kong and Xinjian were targeted, and a malevolent campaign was run. The sane voices started to raise concerns, […]

President Xi speech at UN can be summarized around three key messages, 1) world needs a fair and dignity-based system, 2) no more bullying and 3) Human has common future. China’s international relation policy is revolving around these key areas. China is refining its’ approach to martialize the dream of fair and equality-based system without […]

Economic security is a fascinating and mesmerizing terminology. It influences the minds and dictate the policy discourse and decision making at individual and national level. The notion of economic security is part of literature and policy from unknown times, but with different angle and perspective. The concept always kept well-being of people at the center. […]

Pakistan-China relationship cannot be understood by applying conventional theories or conceptual frameworks of diplomacy and international relation. The relationship is unique, wide-ranging and encompasses all fields of life. It is based on two inimitable ingredients, love and care, which are scarce commodities in international relation. It is not mere statement, history is full of events […]

To understand the term “debt relief diplomacy” we first need to understand the ontology of Chinese international relation and its comparison with Western ontology. Zhao Tingyang, 2006 defined the major difference as Chinese ontology is “ontology of relation” while the Western is “ontology of things”.  According to him Chinese model strive for transformation of relation, […]

Before, delving into, either CPEC is a debt trap or not, let’s try to understand the debt trap concept and how it works. In lay man language or simplest way to explain is, a debt which borrower cannot pay without taking new loans. It initiates a vicious cycle of borrowing, which goes on. Subsequently, the […]

Cities have been assigned the tag of engine of growth, due to their multifaceted role in industrialization and expansion of business. The historical data, trend and empirical analysis also point to the same conclusion. World Bank in 2020, highlighted that 80 percent of world GDP is being generated from cities. The UN-Habitat described that the […]

Elite capture is being defined as, where the most powerful groups acquire the decisive power of the political decision making, distribution of resources and defining the status of classes. Principles and agents of political economy work hand in hand and work out strategies to ensure the control over power of allocation and distribution of resources. […]

COP-26 is going to be organized sense of hope and maturity. The hope is derived from the positive developments during the last few months. The worst opponents of climate change are vacating the power houses. World is coming out of COVID-19 with the realization that we can manage our lifestyle to check the rampant GHG […]