Archive for March 3rd, 2023

Asia’s Third Way

How ASEAN Survives—and Thrives—Amid Great-Power Competition The defining geopolitical contest of our time is between China and the United States. And as tensions rise over trade and Taiwan, among other things, concern is understandably mounting in many capitals about a future defined by great-power competition. But one region is already charting a peaceful and prosperous path through this bipolar era. […]

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US says Doha agreement ‘weakened’ Afghan partners

US State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Wednesday that the signing of the Doha agreement in 2020 had ‘weakened’ Washington’s partners in Afghanistan and empowered the Islamic Emirate (IEA). Addressing a press conference, Price said in answer to a question on the third anniversary of the signing of the deal that “the agreement empowered the Taliban (IEA), it weakened […]

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EU envoys meet IEA’s foreign minister in Kandahar

Thomas Nicholson, the European Union’s special representative for Afghanistan, met on Thursday with the Islamic Emirate’s Foreign Minster Amir Khan Muttaqi. On twitter, Hafiz Zia Ahmad Takal, deputy spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said the two sides discussed political issues, fighting corruption and security issues. In the meeting, Nicholson praised the Islamic Emirate for their efforts to ensure […]

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IEA supreme leader meets with scholars and security ministers

The leader of the Islamic Emirate, Mawlavi Hibatullah Akhundzada, has met with a number of scholars from Kandahar, Kabul, Kapisa, Baghlan, Faryab, Khost and Nangarhar provinces, the IEA’s spokesman said in a statement on Thursday. According to the statement, the Ministers of National Defense, Interior, Foreign Affairs and Communications and Information Technology were also present at the meeting. The meeting […]

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Xi’s Law-and-Order Strategy

The CCP’s Quest for a Fresh Source of Legitimacy For the past three decades, the Chinese Communist Party has grounded its political rule in the success of its administration—particularly in managing the economy. In the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, an implicit political bargain was struck between the government and the general population: the people would accept authoritarian […]

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The Limits of the No-Limits Partnership

China and Russia Can’t Be Split, but They Can Be Thwarted On February 4, 2022, Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, at the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing. After talks, the two sides released a joint statement declaring that China and Russia’s bilateral partnership was greater than a traditional alliance and that their friendship […]

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The Reckoning That Wasn’t

Why America Remains Trapped by False Dreams of Hegemony Over the course of many evenings in 1952 and 1953, when I was a kindergartner, my family gathered around a hand-me-down TV in the Chicago housing project where we lived to watch Victory at Sea. With stirring music and solemn narration, this 26-part documentary produced by NBC offered an inspiring account […]

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