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Arab media: Saudi purge promises tighter control
Long-standing Saudi efforts to dominate the pan-Arab media landscape appear to have moved into high gear with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's purge that...
Behind the arrangement of “state visit plus” for President Trump in China
Authors: Wang Li & Yang Yi-zhong* According to a conventional argument, with no heir apparent and his power firmly consolidated, Chinese President Xi Jinping...
The 100 years after the October Revolution: Is Lenin still In?
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution of October 1917. As we in the United States try to imagine a revolutionary...
Trump Assessment on Election Anniversary
It is a year since Donald J. Trump's election as president on November 8, 2016, and a couple of months less since his inauguration. ...
The Saudi Arabian issue
The 32-year old Prince Muhammad bin Salman, who is the heir to Saudi Arabia’s throne, wants at first "to eradicate the roots of Islamic...
Getting the Saudi fight against corruption right
Kuwaiti billionaire Maan al-Sanea should have seen it coming after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman vowed to root out corruption. ...
No time to rest: Why Putin can’t afford to retire now?
Though the official campaign for the 2018 Russian presidential election has not yet started, many experts say that current president Vladimir Putin has started...
The Real Reason Why the Supreme Court Had To Ban Petcoke
The Supreme Court of India recently imposed a ban on the use of petcoke and furnace oil in the states of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh...
Saudi Crown Prince’s unprecedented power grab could come to haunt him
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has won the first round of what could prove to be an unprecedented power grab that comes to...
Saudi crackdown raises spectre of wider spread dissent
Few paid attention to a rare protest in Saudi Arabia in late January 2011 as a wave of popular uprisings swept the Middle East...