East Asia

China’s Neo Mercantilism and Sino-Pak Strategic Relations

The economic reforms of 1978 in China brought about an increase in its Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Following the neo mercantilist policies it has...

Securing Xinjiang: China adds security component to Belt and Road initiative

China appears to be shifting gears in its multi-billion dollar Belt and Road initiative. Long projected as driven by economics and the benefit of...

Why North Korean and U.S. Negotiations Will Fail?

The failure of the ongoing negotiations, while North Korea is willing to suspend its nuclear and missile program, will definitely Washington make, in the...

Xinjiang: Pan-Turkism fuels China’s hearts-and-minds campaign

Chinese efforts to woo Saudi Arabia’s ethnic Chinese community highlight the People’s Republic’s effort to avert criticism from the Muslim world of its crackdown...

Xinjiang: China ignores lessons from the past

A Chinese campaign to forcibly assimilate ethnic Uyghurs in its north-western province of Xinjiang in a bid to erase nationalist sentiment, counter militancy, and...

The transformation of the North Korean military and political system

How is North Korea’s political system currently changing, pending the Great Transformation with the USA and South Korea, wanted and carefully directed by Kim...

U.S.-North Korea Summit: Why Kim Jong Un emerged victorious and is still winning

After a long hiatus, the day came and Donald Trump, the President of the United States met the North Korean leader Kim Jong–Un in...

Tibetan leadership lets slip double standards during Canada, Israel visits

When Dr. Lobsang Sangay, head of the Tibetan government in exile, spoke before a Canadian Parliament Committee on 12 June, he claimed to speak...

North Korea, the United States and the Singapore Summit Agreement

There are many essential points of the US-North Korean talks which have been treated, albeit briefly, in the Singapore Summit between Kim Jong-Un and...

The mimic of Democracy of the Dalai Lama’s Tibetan Government in Exile

The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) – known also Tibetan Government in Exile - celebrates ‘Democracy Day’ on 2 September every year and has done...

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