Photo source: Indian Express By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe UpFront For quite some time, China has been in the quest for political, military and economic espionage. This has been done through a network of installations known as the ‘String of Pearls’.  It is aimed to project a dominating presence in littoral South Asia. One such aim exhibited by the ‘String of Pearls’ strategy is the maritime dominance. By embarking on this approach, China wants to counter other superpowers such as the United States. There are some who support China’s geopolitical rise against American hegemony for a needful balance of power. In fact, what China wants to do, has been already done in the past by the British, Portuguese, Dutch and Spaniards, during the colonial times.   Indian strategists fear that Chinese economic buildup, due to the advent of ports in Colombo, Sri Lanka (Sri Lankan government leased Hambantota port for a 99-year lease to the Chinese, where the latter agre...

Photo source: ABC News By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe UpFront The campaign of 2018 Mexican Presidential election was the bloodiest its people have seen in decades. It is because one hundred thirty individuals were  killed, in recent times, during the campaigns.  At the same time, it had been the largest election in Mexico’s history, with about 3,400 posts up for grabs. This time around, voting had been done in over 3000 districts. A grey-haired, baseball buff, Lopez Obrador won around 53% of the total vote. The Associated Press called it a ‘landslide win’. The press wanted sensationalism at his win, but mixed reactions have come. Some regional analysts call him a ‘populist’ and ‘autocrat’, who doesn’t understand the complexity of Mexican politics, with its different economic and political approaches, in the last thirty years. Others fear that he might eventually turn around as the next Hugo Chavez, a protectionist, and a supporter of nationalisation. On t...

Photo Source: Political World By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront South Korea has its own problems of genocide, in its past history. It is mainly due to the fact that the country has hosted several military dictatorships. For decades, the Bodo League massacre, an unknown massacre, is part of lost political history, in the minds of historians, had become unknown to the world. It was actually part of South Korea’s least known ‘the forgotten war’, and had happened in a place called Daejon, mainly in October 1950, now an industrial city. Some people believed this systematic massacre was started two months earlier. During 1991, a construction worker preparing for a concrete foundation at some place, south of the city, discovered something, which shattered the fabric of the South Korean society in the times to come. Amidst the soil, he found a human skull of a child with several bullet holes. This human remain were not the last one in the debris to be unburied from beneath. After ...