Transparency International released its annual report on corruption worldwide in January 2022. The report shows that the corruption situation is getting worse in developing countries; however, developed countries have problems too. The author’s recommendations include strengthening anti-corruption agencies, advocating for transparency in public spending and cracking down on financial crime. Some countries have taken a...
Understanding diplomacy is not as complex as understanding rocket science. It’s simply the government’s methods and tools to engage with other governments. I presume you must have come across the term diplomacy. Etymologically, it comes from the Greek word diplōma, meaning “an object folded in two”. At the beginning of the 18th C, the use of...
In a meeting held on October 13 – 14, 2021 in Beijing, President Xi Jinping of China mentioned for the first time the term ‘whole-process people’s democracy’, a term he coined in November 2019 during his visit to Shanghai. Democracy is a common value of humanity and an important idea that the Communist Party of...
Beauty: “the quality of giving pleasure to the senses or to the mind,” that is how Oxford dictionary defines it.