President Trump is launching a tariff blitz on the world for one reason: China. China’s economy is built on a system that distorts free trade. Determined to grow at any cost, China has been overproducing everything. It started with roads and rail lines, then moved to apartments and mansions, and now it’s cars, refrigerators and semiconductors. These goods are dumped […]
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Adding New Dimensions To ‘Othering’ Indian Muslims – Analysis
While Pooja Shakun Pandey of the Hindu Maha Sabha called for a genocide of Muslims at the Dharam Sansad in Hardwar in 2021, Shiv Sena (Shinde) leader Sanjay Nirupam recently threated to unleash another Jallianwala Bagh massacre targeting Muslim protestors. In December 2021, the media reported that Sadhvi Annapurna aka Pooja Shakun Pandey of the Hindu Mahasabha gave a call […]
Read more ›Would Donald Trump Defend Taiwan?
China’s latest round of military drills around Taiwan has once again drawn attention to one of the most consequential unknowns in global security: if Beijing invades, would U.S. President Donald Trump try to stop it? China’s Warning Shots and Taiwan’s Place Last week, the Chinese military’s Eastern Theater Command conducted two days of exercises around Taiwan, describing them as a […]
Read more ›Geopolitical Implications Of Yunus’s Visit To China – Analysis
Introduction: China sees South Asia as its immediate neighborhood and a zone of influence. The rise of China is altering the traditional international norms and systems. Bangladesh’s geopolitical location dictates her foreign policy makers to treat India as a significant player in the South Asia. However, South Asia on the eve of the 1971 Bangladesh Crisis was “an area of […]
Read more ›Underestimating China
Why America Needs a New Strategy of Allied Scale to Offset Beijing’s Enduring Advantages Success in great-power competition requires rigorous and unsentimental net assessment. Yet the American estimation of China has lurched from one extreme to the other. For decades, Americans registered blistering economic growth, dominance of international trade, and growing geopolitical ambition, and anticipated the day when China might […]
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