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President Donald Trump stepped off Air Force One in Beijing on May 13,2026 and the welcome was a big show with young Chinese people waving flags in a rehearsed way, brass bands lined up, and all the pomp and ceremony a country can offer to another’s Head of State. This was exactly what Trump wanted, and what Chinese President Xi Jinping was happy to provide. But behind all the fancy events of this, the May 14-15, 2026’s meeting was a much more complicated situation wherein two major global...

On April, 28, 2026, Tuesday, the United Arab Emirates made an announcement that sent shock waves across the global energy markets and diplomatic circles that it would leave the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), effective from May 1, thus ending a membership that had stood strong for more than five decades. The move is part of long-standing miscommunications, ongoing tensions between Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and a rapidly growing war in the region; it's important to...

Introduction: For years, India’s energy sector has been built on a quiet calculation and now the calculation is under severe stress. The Strait of Hormuz, which is a 33-kilometre- wide chokepoint between Iran and Oman through which nearly one-fifth of the world’s traded energy passes, has become the center of India’s gas security. New Delhi has sent our Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister, Shri Hardeep Singh Puri to address this growing concern. He landed in Doha on April 9, for a two day...