Acier, circuits et stratégie. L’ascension de la Chine au rang de puissance mondiale s’est manifestée le plus visiblement par sa croissance économique et son développement technologique. Mais derrière le déploiement massif de ports, d’autoroutes et de la 5G se cache une autre force qui redessine discrètement les contours de la géopolitique : le complexe militaro-industriel. Bien plus qu’une simple base […]

Over the past three years, two U.K. companies with no prior record in the mining industry have won tens of millions of dollars in Uzbek state procurement contracts with a mining behemoth known as a “crown jewel” of Uzbekistan’s economy. One was owned, on paper, by a septuagenarian British bookkeeper with no evident ties to Central Asia. The other, by […]

Pakistani forces have killed at least 145 Baloch fighters after deadly militant attacks took the lives of dozens in Balochistan province. In a series of coordinated gun and bomb attacks, which began early on Saturday at multiple locations across southwestern Balochistan, the militants linked to the banned separatist Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) had killed 48 people — including 17 security […]