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US-Saudi/UAE, Defense deals in abeyance is a major geopolitical event and has very serious implications on many nations. This action also gave framework to Biden foreign policy towards Gulf and major countries. By this defense deal abeyance, Biden has tried to repair the damages made by the Trump administration to Iran. It shall also open the gates of the US-Iran Nuke deal and removal of economic embargo on Iran. Supremacy of Saudi over Organization of Islamic Cooperation is being challenged and Turkey shall take full advantage of this opportunity. Israel also has to pay the price of this defense deal abeyance as other Islamic countries shall not increase their relation further with Israel. India and China have an opportunity to fill in the shoes of the US, as Saudi has deep pockets and budget for defense procurement and can also offer discounted curd oil.

Recently US administration has released the list of blacklisted countries, for following ill practices towards systematic oppress of Minority in their nations. Under US’s International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced the name of 10 countries – China, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, Eritrea, Mynamar, Saudi Arabi, Sudan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan – which are designated as “Countries for Particular Concern”. The US understand that many minority individuals in these countries continue to face harassment, arrests, or even death for simply living their lives in accordance with their beliefs. To understand the issue, we must first know that what is International Religious Freedom Act of 1998? It is an act/law passed by US Congress to promote religious freedom as a foreign policy, to promote greater religious freedom in countries which engage in or tolerate violations of religious freedom, and to advocate on the behalf of individuals persecute...

Bloomberg article dated October 4, 2018, 2:30 PM GMT+5:30, has created a sensation in the world over security services, as reported ‘a rice size microchip for surveillance was found in China make Supermicro’s motherboards’ and almost all nations in the world procure electronic items manufactured in China. It has first come in to the notice in 2015, when Amazon.com Inc. was evaluating ‘Elemental Technologies’ (Based in Portland-Ore). Elemental Technology fit nicely with Amazon’s government businesses, such as the highly secure cloud that Amazon Web Services (AWS) was building for the CIA, hence Amazon consider it as a potential acquisition. During Third party evaluation, the testers found a tiny microchip, not much bigger than a grain of rice, that wasn’t part of the boards’ original design. The chips had been inserted at factories run by manufacturing subcontractors in China. With this an another level of war by supply chain attack has initiated. It is also noticed that a state-b...