Romania’s independent nationalist and pro-Russia candidate, Călin Georgescu, stunned Europe by winning the first round of the presidential elections on November 24, 2024, mainly on the strength of anti-establishment and diaspora votes.
Should the Sino-Indian rapprochement last longer, it will certainly come to be labelled as the harbinger of an era of peace and prosperity in the Asian continent.
In Russia Alexander Dugin is an Eurasianist, an intellectual successor of Lev Gumilev but with a Christian Orthodox perspective in the line of Dostoyevsky and Ivan Ilyin.
Ironically, the two parties, supposedly devoted to Parliamentary supremacy in a democratic Pakistan, have done more to strengthen the Army’s stranglehold on Pakistan’s politics than any other groups.
For the 13th FYP to succeed, Bhutan will have to leverage its membership in multilaterals like the BIMSTEC and ensure that the injection of capital does not contribute to heightened inflation and fiscal deficit, which will hinder economic restructuring.
