Month: October 2025

Challenging Western-centric paradigms, the GDI seeks to realign global priorities toward people-centered progress, green transformation, and multilateral cooperation.

The United States and China have inched closer to a temporary trade truce as top officials from both sides reached a preliminary framework to pause new U.S. tariffs and delay China’s rare earth export controls.

From Latin America’s nationalization struggles to Pakistan’s debt entrapment, developmentism turned into the modern face of neocolonialism, where the pen, the contract, and the loan replaced the sword and the empire.

As droughts, coal mining, and neglect strip away ancestral lands and livelihoods, thousands of Tharis are being forced to migrate without recognition or rights.

From Iraq to Gaza, foreign powers claim to bring stability—but their rivalries often turn local wars into endless regional crises.

China’s near-total dominance over the global rare earth elements (REEs) supply chain—built through decades of state-backed industrial strategy—has transformed these critical minerals into powerful geopolitical instruments.

Despite policies and claims of inclusivity, systemic barriers such as workplace harassment, weak institutional safeguards, and lack of job security continue to marginalize women, particularly in the private sector.