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What’s CPEC, and How Does the Future of the Multipolar World Depend on It?
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What’s CPEC, and How Does the Future of the Multipolar World Depend on It? By Andrew Korybko Andrew just returned from Pakistan’s National Defence University where he was lecturing on the geostrategic significance of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, and he’s eager to share
Read Full ArticleRising Dragon, Wounded Eagle - Second-Largest Economies
0 comments | by Munir Akram
WHEN China’s former vice premier, Qian Qichen, was asked 20 years ago about the future of Sino-US relations, he reportedly responded: “They [Sino-US relations] will never be as good as they should be; and never be as bad as they can be.” This prognosis holds true today for the world’s “most important bilateral relationship”. The largest and second-lar
Read Full ArticleChilcot: The Tip of Absolutism - 20 Years Ago
0 comments | by Samson Simon Sharaf
Chilcot report is an eye wash has done very little more than to confirm the obvious. The report has no remit, and the findings were always going to be of very little importance. Experts are of the view that the anger that is felt in the UK and across the world about the invasion of Iraq is not going to be changed by what has been written in the report. As much as it is good for academ
Read Full ArticleThe Hole in the Heart of Asia - President Ashraf Ghani
0 comments | by Peter Lee
There was one word missing from Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani’s speech at the “Heart of Asia” conference at Amritsar concerning Afghan security and Pakistan. So let me say it: CHINA CHINA CHINA. The last few months have seen Ghani and the US government working assiduously to construct a “light at the end of the tunnel” narrative foretelling the d
Read Full ArticleChina, India, Pakistan: Moving Beyond Water Wars
0 comments | by Bilal Hussain
Reliance on the same rivers should promote cooperation, not conflict, in the Indus Basin. Countries like China, India, and Pakistan have started counting every drop of water and are looking to maximize the use of trans-boundary water resources, especially the waters of infamous Indus basin, which are shared by Afghanistan, China, India and Pakistan. In a recent dev
Read Full ArticleIndia’s Foremost 2017 Foreign Policy Challenge: China-Pakistan-Russia
0 comments | by Dr Subhash Kapila
A series of events in 2016 created a widespread narrative that the U.S. is an unreliable ally and a weak partner. The US is currently suffering a crisis of credibility with its allies across the globe. From Pakistan to Turkey, from Iraq to Malaysia, from Philippines to Libya, US is losing allies at a unprecedented speed Year 2017 may herald diplomatic and regional strategic
Read Full ArticleAfghan Drugs - It’s not only in Europe, Iran, China, the Central Asian Republics and Russia
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It’s not only in Europe, Iran, China, the Central Asian Republics and Russia that the enormous surge in Afghan heroin production has become a dangerous and even critical menace to their citizens. In Afghanistan there has been creation and massive growth of drug addiction. The annual production of heroin from Afghan opium is around 300,000 kg. Afghanistan, where, as reported
Read Full ArticleChina Will Not Sit Still if India Goes Too Far': State-Run Daily Responds to Indian Missile Test
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China's state-run daily Global Times in an editorial titled 'India needs to cool its missile fever' admonished New Delhi on Monday for 'breaking' United Nations "limits on its development of nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missile" following a missile test by India. The successful test of the Agni-IV intercontinental nuclear-capable ballistic missile, which
Read Full ArticleChina Wonders if India Will Take Up Pakistani General's Offer To Join CPEC
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