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• China’s SCO Summit Highlights West’s Growing Ideological Isolation, + Zelensky’s Desperate Gambit
  September 3, 2025
  Last week Zelensky made the curious decision to open up the borders to Ukraine’s 18-22 year old males. The decision was met with both approval and disgust in different quarters of the country: The bigger question is
• In Latest Kashmir Crackdown, India Targets Ideas
  September 3, 2025
  When regional authorities announced a sweeping list of book bans in Kashmir, the disputed territory at the heart of a recent military conflict between India and Pakistan, veteran journalist Anuradha Bhasin soon learned
• Tracks to Nowhere: A New Railway in Indian-Administered Kashmir
  September 3, 2025
  In Indian-administered Kashmir, the new Vande Bharat train glides into Srinagar railway station like a kept promise made visible. Its horn cuts clean through the morning air, scattering a few birds as a curious crowd
• Putin calls Xi ‘dear friend’ at Russia-China summit in Beijing
  September 3, 2025
  Chinese leader Xi Jinping welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin as an “old friend” as the two held a series of meetings Tuesday at a time when their countries face both overlapping and differing challenges from
• The SCO Finally Condemned The Pahalgam Terrorist Attack
  September 3, 2025
  The recent Sino-Indo rapprochement, which was inadvertently brought about by the US, accounts for why this year’s Chinese host agreed to include this in the Tianjin Declaration unlike how it was conspicuously omitted
• South Asia Intelligence Review
  September 3, 2025
  Northeast: Narco-Terrorism Nexus On August 30, 2025, three persons – Neeraj Kumar (26), Jyoti Kumari (25) and Hashna Begum (26) – were arrested at the Agartala Railway Station in West Tripura District of
• Russie-Chine : de la mémoire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale à la synergie BRICS/OCS
  September 1, 2025
  Trois dates – étroitement liées – qui nous attendent pourraient être déterminantes pour façonner la prochaine configuration de l’échiquier géopolitique actuellement en pleine effervescence. Ensemble, ces
• Thai-Cambodian Border Clashes Help Revive Hun Sen’s Power
  August 31, 2025
  Although he stepped down as prime minister and de facto dictator in 2023, after more than three decades running Cambodia with an iron hand, Hun Sen has remained the most powerful actor in the country. He still,
• China Is Worried About Dollar-Backed Stablecoins
  August 31, 2025
  The power to control access to money is no longer the exclusive privilege of the sovereign. Increasingly, the rules governing how money is created, moves, and is held are enforced not by governments alone but by code,
• What the Failed Recall in Taiwan Means for U.S.-Taiwan and Cross-Strait Relations
  August 31, 2025
  The failed recall campaign in Taiwan will likely prompt continued political gridlock, raising important questions for U.S.-Taiwan and cross-Strait relations. On Saturday, July 26, all 24 legislators from Taiwan’s