Aramco’s IPO: A bell weather of Saudi balancing between East and West
Saudi Arabia’s planned awarding of mandates for the
management of an initial public offering (IPO) by its national oil company
Aramco is likely to serve as...
Diverging Gulf responses to Kashmir and Xinjiang ripple across Asia
Recent diametrically opposed responses to repression of Muslims by
China, India and other Asian countries highlight deep differences among Gulf
states that ripple across Asia.
The different...
Israeli contrasts: Likud’s favoured soccer teams veers left as Bibi turns further right
The contrast could not be starker. As Israel plays a dangerous game of
US politics by restricting or banning
visits by controversial Democratic members of Congress...
Business and boxing: two sides of the same coin
What do a planned US$15 billion Saudi
investment in petroleum-related Indian businesses and a controversial boxing
championship have in common?
Both reflect a world in which power...
The Kashmir crisis spotlights what a civilizational world looks like
India’s decision to deprive Kashmir of its autonomy, alongside a
clampdown in the troubled north-western Chinese province of Xinjiang and
US-backed Israeli annexation of Arab land,...
Uyghur asylum seeker puts international community on the spot
Ablikim Yusuf, a 53-year old Uyghur Muslim seeking a safe haven from
potential Chinese persecution, landed this week in
the United States, his new home.
But Mr....
Security architecture in the Gulf: Troubled prospects
Russia, backed by China, hoping to exploit mounting doubts in the Gulf
about the reliability of the United States as the region’s sole security
guarantor, is...
George Orwell’s 1984 revisited: The rise of the civilisationalists
The rise of a critical mass of world leaders including Donald J. Trump,
Xi Jinping and others In Europe, Asia and Latin America who are ...
Saudi Iranian rivalry polarises Nigerian Muslims
A recent ban on a militant, Iranian-backed Shiite
group raised the
spectre of the Saudi Iranian rivalry spilling onto Nigerian streets as security forces launched a...
Kashmir: A battleground for Middle Eastern rivals
Thought that sectarianism was a pillar of the Saud
Iranian rivalry? Think again, think Kashmir where the two countries’ geopolitical
rivalry and Turkish ambitions cross sectarian...