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SRI LANKA- Already entered the Dragon, Return of the Dragon a bit difficult

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Sri Lanka- A pawn in the hands of China.  India facing tough challenges ahead maintaining balance and peace in the region In the interests of one and all ... My dear countrymen! Recently, Sri Lanka has been plunged into great turmoil due to quick political developments and power succession game, indeed, an unhealthy development. There are three main players in the whole political drama ; First - Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka, (Former Health Minister in Rajapaksa Govts.) Second - Mahinda Rajapaksa, who has recently been appointed PM by President Sirisena, (Mahinda Rajapaksa already in power before as premier and President for 10 years at a stretch) who has been a staunch supporter of China. And, Third being - Ranil Wickremesinghe outgoing PM, inclined towards India. Sirisena and Wickremesinghe tied up together and Sirisena got Rajapaksa defeated in the presidential election held on 8th January 2015. In a surprise move, President Maithripala S

Syrian Crisis

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Bloodbath in Syria with virtually no gain, Syrian President emerged stronger than ever and Russia regained glory In the interests of one and all ... My dear countrymen! Syria is a West Asian Country neighbouring Turkey, Jordon, Iraq, Lebanon and Israel. Present President Bashar al-Assad became President in the year 2000 after the death of his father Hafiz al-Assad who ruled Syria for quite a long period from 1970 to 2000. After seeing the tragic Catastrophe in Syria since 2011, and that is still on, it is not hard to believe why even dream thought of liberty in the least form is a nightmare for citizens and how rulers of such autocratic states are so fearful about losing powers that they can’t afford to chance even slightest teenagers’s protest in any form, got them crushed in the most heinous manner the moment it had arisen anywhere in the country. More than seven years after the non-stop deadly war with the involvement of powerful western nations and even su

QATAR- A scar on the big face of Saudi and its Gulf allies

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How Tiny QATAR plays a very prominent role in the Middle East for America and the West? In the interests of one and all ... My dear countrymen! Qatar is a tiny nation in the Middle East. It’s a peninsula surrounded by the Persian Gulf. To its south side connected with only Saudi Arabia by land. An arm of the Persian Gulf separates Qatar from nearby Bahrain. It is one of the richest nations in the Middle East and has a vast reservoir of Oil and Gas and is the second largest exporter of Gas in the world after Russia. Qatar is ruled by Al Thani families and its present ruler is Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. On 25th June’ 2013 he became Emir of Qatar after his father handed over the power to him in a televised speech. Qatar’s total population is only about 2.6 million, out of which Qataris are only 313000, and rest 2.3 million are expatriates (outsiders) as per 2017 census. Due to rich natural resources of Oil and Gas and meagrely populations, it has the distinction