The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) under the BRI lends Kashgar and Xinjiang as a whole added significance because of the geographical proximity to Pakistan.
Read More »Embellishing News: Another Hybrid Warfare Technique
Vested interests have come up with a new and dangerous technique, what we call ‘embellished news’, meaning that the gist of the news item is true but it is blown out of proportion, than generalized and the negativity maximized, thus achieving the same effect: to unsettle, destabilize and sow doubts and distrust.
Read More »Is Pompeo Turning Trump Against Pakistan to Target China?
Secretary Pompeo's salvo against China and Pakistan will likely further harden Beijing’s resolve in preserving its alliance with Pakistan at all costs.
Read More »Big Gains or Growing Pains in Store for the SCO?
The SCO’s recent membership expansion presents both opportunities and challenges as the organization’s cohesiveness, effectiveness and policy coordination will go through a period of refocusing, redefining and re-energizing.
Read More »India Should Not Use Water Crisis to Justify River Linking
Modi’s government should focus on local solutions and stronger governance rather than build large dams and river diversions, argues Ashok Swain.
Read More »View From Dhaka: Is India Losing a ‘Trusted’ Friend?
India has been losing her neighbors to China, one by one. Bangladesh has remained untouched. Under no circumstances should India let China take political control of Bangladesh.
Read More »Kazakhstan’s Water Efficiency to Ease Tensions with China
Policymakers in Kazakhstan shift focus to domestic water saving measures to reduce reliance on river water flowing from China.
Read More »Nepal’s Leftist Victory And the Changing Trans-Himalayan Order
With a leftist-alliance government at federal and most provincial levels, Nepal has the chance to work on the diversification of its overwhelming dependence on India by connecting more with China.
Read More »Why did Chinese Investment in the Philippines Stagnate?
While inter-state relations do matter, the political relations between Beijing and Manila do not solely shape the rise or fall of Chinese foreign direct investment.
Read More »Asia’s Other Nuclear Standoff
With the world focused on the scary possibility of war on the Korean Peninsula, not many people paid much attention to a series of naval exercises this past July in the Malacca Strait, a 550-mile long passage between Sumatra and Malaysia through which pass over 50,000 ships a year. With President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un …
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