Global perceptions of the U.S. have deteriorated for a second consecutive year and are now worse than views of Russia, an annual study on ​democracy published on Friday showed, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies continue ‌to severely strain the NATO alliance. The Denmark-based Alliance of Democracies Foundation, which commissioned the survey, said the U.S. […]

Global fuel prices have once again become a barometer of geopolitical tension post Covid-19 times. In April 2026, the fragile ceasefire negotiations between Iran and the United States of America triggered sharp swings in Brent crude with prices spiking to 12% in a single week after the talks stalled over uranium enrichment limits. Despite the […]

Almost going unnoticed to the unkeen Ugandan journalistic eye, there is a diplomatic routine between the National Resistance Movement (NRM) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It happens every few years, when senior government officials of the ruling NRM welcome a delegation of high-ranking members of the CCP. Sometimes the reception is reciprocated in Beijing. […]

China calls for an immediate and full ceasefire, opposes renewed conflict, and stresses the priority of talks on the Iran situation, said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks during talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed […]

The ascent to global dominance by the United States after WWI quickly shifted the global power balance, typically to a two power contest until the end of the cold war. With the breakup of the Soviet Union however, America with her Western following enjoyed a near-competition-free unipolar moment until the emergence of China at the […]

In the global governance discourse, Western epistemological colonisation has led us to believe, unquestioningly, that electoral democracy is the only process through which a political system can gain legitimacy. I disagree. China is one country whose political leadership challenges the applicability of democracy in a universal fashion, as an obvious truism. The Chinese Communist Party […]