More: China
Belt and Road Initiative and China-Iran cooperation
Over the past two weeks, the National People’s Congress of China (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) were held in Beijing,...
Shooting an Own Goal: China’s Belt and Road funding terms spark criticism
Steep commercial terms for China’s investment in infrastructure projects across Eurasia related to its Belt and Road initiative may give it control of key...
Ice Silk Road: From Dream to reality
Authors: Mahdi Torabi*, Vahid Pourtajrishi
The history of Silk Road backs to thousands years ago. The aim of creation of this route was linking China...
India’s Military Spending and South Asian Security
Over the past several years, unprecedented military modernization in Pakistan’s immediate neighbour, India, has worsened South Asia’s security environment. India's heavy military spending and...
Seven Out of 10 Top School Systems Are in East Asia Pacific
The East Asia and Pacific region has seven of the top ten performing education systems in the world, with schools in China and Vietnam...
China’s military doctrine with President Xi Jinping
Which is President Xi Jinping’s military doctrine and his  "warfare rationale"?
With a view to well understanding the evolution of Chinese warfare studies to date,...
Special Economic Zones and CPEC
Economic Expansion, high prices and inflation are the issues on which one can talk for hours. The scarcity of resources, energy crises and lack...
Asia and the Middle East lead rising trend in arms imports, US exports grow significantly
Continuing the upward trend that began in the early 2000s, the volume of international transfers of major weapons in 2013-17 was 10 per cent higher than...
Pakistan struggles to get a grip on militancy and ultra-conservatism
Seventy years after its birth, Pakistan is struggling to get a grip on Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatism and its militant offshoots that were aided and...
Trump and Tariffs: Déjà vu
These are interesting times we are living in. But, then, when is it that the "times" are not interesting at all? The European glue...