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Doklam Plateau Standoff or South China Sea: Chinese Active Defence Strategy turns into Incremental Encroachments
As Comprehensive National Power (CNP) of China is growing, its strategy to impose its national will (as perceived by its few key leaders), exercise...
New Trend of Regional Security Cooperation perceived or misperceived?
Authors: Nodir Boboev & Yihan Zhang The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) started in 2012 as a multiple organization of its original member-states such as...
China contributes to doubts about Pakistani crackdown on militants
China, at the behest of Pakistan, has for the second time this year prevented the United Nations from listing a prominent Pakistani militant as...
China and Turkey Aspiring for the Greatness in the World
Authors: Wang Li & Fan Yao-tian During his 2-day visit to China (August 2-3), Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu of Turkey informed the media that...
Environmentalism: A Slippery Slope of Ignorance and Hypocrisy
Perusing through my morning news digest, I came across an article from The Daily Mail featuring a story on the employment of child labor...
Why does China need a “support” base in Djibouti?
For four decades since 1949, Chinese government vowed not to send a single soldier abroad during the peacetime. This statement sounds credible because the...
Xi Jinping’s military doctrine: Confidence, competence and commitment
Authors: Wang Li & Kripendra Amatya In modern history, the great powers of the West rarely discussed Chinese military favorably, because although it was...
Do CIA and BND punish Recep T. Erdogan?
Erdogan’s recent motives and cornerstone foreign policy objectives are really problematic for the former allies of Ankara. The more Ankara pushes for an independent...
A New U.S. Policy for South Asia: What’s in store for Pakistan?
A U.S. delegation is expected to visit Pakistan in the first week of August to discuss its new strategy for South Asia. According to...
Pakistan-United States relations: mutual mistrust continues
On July 21st, the US Defense Secretary James Mattis stated that the Pentagon will not make the remaining military reimbursements to Pakistan for the...