Honor Among Thieves?
When Michael Cohen, fixer for Donald
Trump, payoff-artist and jailbird-to-be,
who starts 3-year prison sentence on May 6, branded his former boss a liar and
cheat who...
Chinese Flags over Europe?
As
President Xi Jinping wraps up his week-long tour of Europe, his first overseas
visit of the year, he seems to have left a growing sense...
Balochistan: A powder keg at a geopolitical crossroads
Balochistan should be oozing with optimism as Chinese and Saudi
investment pours into the troubled Pakistani province. It is not. Instead,
Balochistan, a key node in...
Preparing for the Russia- Africa Summit
On March
19, under the Chairmanship of Yury Ushakov, an Aide to the Russian President
Vladimir Putin, the Organizing Committee on Russia-Africa held its first
meeting in...
Does rente hinder democracy in Algeria
A rapid
look around the world demonstrates that few rentier countries can be classified
as democratic states, especially those in the MENA region; therefore, scholars
have suggested...
India’s Belligerence in Kashmir
Love begets love, tyranny gives birth to tyranny
Kashmir, a
valley, where humanity is bleeding, the valley itself is burning with the
brutality of Indian occupation forces,...
The fallacy of soccer’s magical bridge-building qualities
Imagining
himself as a peacemaker in a conflict-ridden part of the world, FIFA President
Gianni Infantino sees a 2022 World Cup shared by Qatar with its...
China’s great geostrategy for trade and defense
The primary
policy line of the People's Republic of China, above all at sea level, is to
defend its strategic and military interests, but anyway without...
A peek into India’s 2019 elections: Past trends and portents
A bird’s-eye view
Some 814 million voters speaking 1,652
languages will vote in 900,000 voting centers across the country over 35 days
in 2019. India’s imminent (April...
The Track to Prosperity
The world
is rebalancing and one of the key gears of this shift is that the tide has
turned towards eastern hemisphere. The world is being...