More: China
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...
China’s trash ban lifts lid on global recycling woes but also offers opportunity
China’s decision to ban imports of foreign waste, including some plastics, has reverberated around the world, with recycling operations in other countries struggling to...
India-South Korea Relations: Potential for deeper strategic engagements
South Korean President Moon Jae-In visits India from July 8 to 11. The focus of his visit is said to economic domain. But he...
Pakistan’s financial crisis puts Belt and Road on the spot
Increased Pakistani dependence on China to help it avert resorting to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to avoid a financial and economic crisis spotlights...
China’s ‘Debt Trap’ for Pakistan: Dilutes FATF Ruling
Under normal circumstances, a one billion dollar loan between two sovereign countries would have gone unnoticed by global community, but what makes China’s one...
Trade wars, currency wars and geopolitical clashes
The Chinese yuan has already plummeted to the historic lows of the last seven months as against the dollar and nothing prevents us from...
The Middle East: History threatens to repeat itself
If the notion that history repeats itself is accurate, it is nowhere truer than in the Middle East where the international community, caught by...
Khatami, Ahmadinejad and Rouhani on Russia’s and China’s role in the Iranian nuclear issue
During the Iranian Nuclear crisis, three presidents ruled Iran. Ayatollah Khamenei was Iran’s Supreme Leader during the aforementioned period, and one can argue that...
Shooting oneself in ones’s own foot: Pakistan’s failed effort to evade terrorism finance listing
The Pakistani government’s removal of a virulently anti-Shiite militant from its terrorism list at the very moment that an international money laundering and terrorism...
Global Top 100 reach record $20 trillion, with China narrowing the US’s lead
The market capitalisation of the 100 largest companies globally has increased significantly by $2,597bn or 15% compared to 31 March 2017, according to PwC’s...