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The new AUKUS partnership comes at the cost of sidelining France, a key Indo-Pacific player
Here is my quick take on the new AUKUS security partnership announced on Wednesday (September 15), by the leaders of three key English-speaking countries...
Of Friends And Countries
"The bird, a nest; the spider, a web; man, friendship," William Blake reminded us in 1790. Much earlier, Confucius warned in the 5th century...
20 years after 9/11: American decline in the Islamic world and China- Russian emergence
The main headlines and axes
The first axis: American strategy in the Islamic world, to draw a new political and economic map for establishing the...
Why the Taliban Had to Change
The fall of Kabul to the Taliban, pre-negotiated with the US in Doha, Qatar, has launched yet another fruitless enterprise, as fruitless as the...
The Taliban Dilemma and Thucydides Trap
Graham Allison’s coined term Thucydides Trap referring to Chinese rise against the established hegemon United States gained popularity among scholars of International Politics. The...
An illustration of resilience and hope, in the face anti-Asian hate
The rise in hate crimes against people of Asian and Pacific Island heritage in the United States since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Don’t Magnify America’s Failures
According to America’s gleeful enemies, the hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan is merely a foretaste of the world to come, a place where smaller countries...
Beyond ‘Wait and Watch’ in Afghanistan: Global Implications
Taliban supported by Pakistan took over Afghanistan by force, amidst an embarrassing, botched withdrawal of US and allies, posing a façade of negotiated takeover....
Bin Laden’s legacy probably surpasses his wildest dreams
At the very outset of the 21st century, Osama bin Laden wittingly or unwittingly positioned himself with the 9/11 attacks as one of its...
The G7 Ministerial Meeting: The Three “Firsts” for the Indo-Pacific
In the run-up to the upcoming G7 Summit in June, foreign ministers of the seven wealthiest nations, met in London to discuss on a...