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China’s Assertive Encroachments in South China Sea
The month
of July 2019 witnessed China assertive postures undermining the Permanent Court
of Arbitration ruling (PCA verdict of July 2016) which dismissed China’s claims
of sovereignty...
Shifting Sands: Chinese encroachment in Central Asia and challenges to US supremacy in the Gulf
China and Russia are as much allies as they are rivals.
A joint Tajik-Chinese
military exercise in
a Tajik region bordering on China’s troubled
north-western region of Xinjiang...
China’s risky bets
China’s infrastructure and energy driven US$1 trillion Belt and Road
initiative involves risky bets across a swath of land populated by often
illiberal or autocratic governments...
Prime Minister Imran Khan & President Trump
Pakistan is under an amazing political
leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan and his PTI Party working hard on a new
vision for Pakistan with friendlier...
Muslim causes vs national interest: Muslim nations make risky bets
Saudi attitudes towards the plight of thousands of illegal Rohingya in
the kingdom fleeing persecution in Myanmar and squalid Bangladeshi refugee
camps help explain Saudi support...
Sino-Indonesian Relations: From Friendship to Alliance
The relationship between China
and Indonesia is becoming increasingly important in international politics.
Many analysts are focusing on this relationship as a privileged relationship
and it is...
Power is a drug – What China is the U.S. fighting against?
At the basement floor of the Chinese
National museum in Beijing, there’s a curated collection of China’s imperial
history from antiquity to the fall of the...
Ecology and productivity in today’s China
As a political decision maker, the Chinese
Minister of Natural Resources, Lu Hao, is at the centre of a great
transformation of today's China.
Former Governor of...
Tension in the Gulf: Not just maritime powder kegs
A recent interview in which Baloch National Movement chairman Khalil Baloch legitimized
recent militant attacks on Iranian, Chinese and Pakistani targets is remarkable
less for what...
China’s Experience with High Speed Rail Offers Lessons for Other Countries
China has put into operation over 25,000
kilometers of dedicated high-speed railway (HSR) lines since 2008, far more
than the total high-speed lines operating in the...