CPEC: Conspiracy Theories of Success & Failure
Samina Tippu | Pakistani public, media and now even Chinese stakeholders in CPEC have started celebrating as if China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has become reality...
What does Russia now want in Afghanistan? Peace or further discord
Amina Khan | On December 27, 2016, officials from Russia, China and Pakistan met in Moscow for the third Trilateral Dialogue on Afghanistan, where all...
Is China’s soft power strategy working? famous American Joseph Nye explains
China has come to realize that economic and military power isn’t enough to become a global power, for this it needs to attract others...
China’s President Warns President Trump
Syed Bakhtiyar Kazmi | The fact that he was the first Chinese president to attend the annual bash was a pleasant development for the fawning...
What is the Importance of South China Sea for the US
Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made some surprising remarks about China and the South China Sea during his recent Senate confirmation hearings....
Is a Russian and Turkish Alliance reshaping the world politics?
Mehmet Ozalp | The end of the Aleppo crisis and Syrian ceasefire has produced an unlikely alliance. The relationship between Russia, Turkey and Syria is...
Will Trump continue ‘Pivot to Asia’ policy to contain China?
Abdul Rahim | The U.S’s Pivot to Asia The inauguration of President Trump will restructure U.S foreign policy with a greater emphasis on controlling a ‘rising...
China shocks the west by supporting globalization?
In a major speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Chinese President Xi Jinping positioned himself as a defender of globalization and...
Recent survey conducted by RT: Shows large numbers of Russians are afraid of external threats
Over two-thirds of Russians are sure that their country has enemies and over half the population think that these enemies pose a real threat,...
India warns China to respect its ‘sensitivities’
The Indian foreign secretary, Jaishankar, addressing the Raisina Dialogue said China needed to show signs of reflection. He chided China, in unusually strong tone,...
Qatar backtracks on labor rights: Rise of illiberal world order?
James M. Dorsey | A recent Qatari decision has led to it backtracking on the minimal improvements the country was making in terms of employment...
Trump will never agree but Russia still uses honey traps for spying
Dan Lomas Just a week before his inauguration as US president, Donald Trump has become deeply embroiled in a bizarre story about unverified claims that...