HOW FRENCH HONG KONG OF THE RED SEA BECAME CHINA’S STRATEGIC CHOKE-POINT IN AFRICA; by Anirudh Ramakrishna Phadke

Djibouti (nicknamed as French Hong Kong of the Red Sea due to its cosmopolitan urbanism) lies on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait (Horn of Africa) and serves as a gateway to Suez Canal which is considered as one of the world’s busiest shipping routes. Djibouti being a port at such a strategic location serves as theContinue reading “HOW FRENCH HONG KONG OF THE RED SEA BECAME CHINA’S STRATEGIC CHOKE-POINT IN AFRICA; by Anirudh Ramakrishna Phadke”

COVID-19: THE VIRUS WHICH TURNED CHINA INTO A NIGHTMARE

By Anirudh Ramakrishna Phadke The Novel Coronavirus outbreak in China began in tandem with a significant holiday in the Chinese culture: the Lunar New Year. Parts of China, including Wuhan, went under unprecedented quarantines of large number of people in hopes of stemming the spread of disease, known as 2019-nCoV, which was later officially namedContinue reading “COVID-19: THE VIRUS WHICH TURNED CHINA INTO A NIGHTMARE”