Antony Clement
Senior Editor (Indo - Pacific) at Modern Diplomacy
Foreign Policy Commentator; Member, AICC; Ex Secretary, TNCC Research Dept; Author of Discover Your talents; Loyola College & University of Aberdeen.
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Jan 7, 2025 |
moderndiplomacy.eu | Antony Clement |Modern Diplomacy
We leave 2024. January 2024 feels like yesterday. Many of our experiences have been wonderful, or sorrowful; some will be forgotten and some will remain with us forever. Such patterns reoccur annually. Some tragedies stem from human errors, deliberate or accidental. Time flies. Let us consider the major world events of 2024. One of the hottest news stories in world politics has been Sheikh Hasina. She has dominated Bangladeshi politics for the past 20 years and bent democracy to her own convenience.
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Dec 10, 2024 |
moderndiplomacy.eu | Antony Clement |Modern Diplomacy
The first meeting of leaders of the ‘BRIC’ alliance of Brazil, Russia, India, and China was held in Russia in 2009. Then in 2011, it became a five-nation confederation with the addition of South Africa. Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates also joined at the recent summit in Russia. Many more countries have expressed their desire to join the block. It cannot be said that it is a formal block.
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Dec 3, 2024 |
moderndiplomacy.eu | Antony Clement |Modern Diplomacy
Who possesses eternal, absolute sovereignty over the so-called Promised Land? Historians judge that Canaanite tribes inhabited it, before the gradual integration of Israelis from Egypt. Then, for millennia, amidst wars, exilic periods and persecutions, the Israelis wrestled with various other races and nations to taste the luscious milk and honey of their ancestral lands. For many, it has been a diasporan-contemplative exercise.
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Nov 21, 2024 |
moderndiplomacy.eu | Antony Clement |Modern Diplomacy
On October 7 2023, Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel. It was said that about 4,300 missiles were used by Hamas. Unexpectedly, Israel suffered a huge setback. 1,200 innocent Israelis were killed in this attack. Another 251 were taken hostage by the militant group Hamas to the Gaza Strip. This was very unprecedented. Has Mossad, the so-called global master of espionage failed? According to Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, a country has the right to use its forces in self-defence.
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Dec 27, 2023 |
moderndiplomacy.eu | Antony Clement |Modern Diplomacy
The world is anxiously observing the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars. The international community is concerned about Ukraine; yet no nation is boldly opposing President Vladimir Putin to stop this war. The Taiwanese fear that they will be the next target.
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