S.S.TEJASKUMAR

As media attention surrounding the commissioning of China’s super-carrier Fujian began to wane, a new set of satellite images from the Dalian shipyard in Liaoning province reignited debates among naval analysts about the propulsion system of China’s next carrier, widely referred to as the Type 004. The imagery highlights a heavily reinforced, cylindrical structure embedded deep within an expanding section of the hull—design features strikingly similar to the reactor containment compartments...

The unease permeating Germany’s automotive sector over the past three years cannot be understood merely as an economic tremor. It resembles a slow-moving structural crisis that combines geopolitical shocks, demographic shifts, technological displacement, and deep historical vulnerabilities that the German political class had learned to ignore. When the European Commission announced in October 2022 its intention to ban the sale of new internal combustion engine vehicles by 2035, the...

For decades, African nations have carried the inherited weight of fragmented borders, externally shaped governance models, and a development narrative written largely outside the continent. Yet the idea of Pan-African sovereignty has never disappeared; it resurfaced in political speeches, civil society networks, cross-border markets, and in the stubborn memory of pre-colonial trade routes that once linked communities without passports or checkpoints. The arrival of digital governance tools,...