Toplines Taiwanese President William Lai Ching-te cancelled a planned visit to Taiwanese diplomatic ally Eswatini on April 21 after nearby Mauritius, Madagascar, and Seychelles revoked overflight permissions for his aircraft. The PRC very likely took unprecedented measures in pressuring third countries to help it disrupt Taiwan’s diplomatic engagements and erode Taiwanese sovereignty. The Seychelles Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that […]

The balance between relations with Saudi Arabia and Iran remains a key element of Pakistan’s foreign policy, as the country seeks both to strengthen strategic partnerships and to preserve its role as a mediator in the tense geopolitical environment of the Middle East. The position of Saudi Arabia and Iran Pakistan has had close relations with Saudi Arabia since its […]

On the evening of April 22, at least 10 people, including a Turkish national, were killed while several others sustained injuries in an attack at a copper and gold project site in Darigwan area of Chagai District in Balochistan. Around 40 gunmen, suspected to be Baloch insurgents, on motorcycles and other vehicles stormed the mining project site of the Pakistani […]

A conference on Afghanistan’s political future and its role in the region opened in Ankara on Friday, bringing together the country’s political figures, civil society members and analysts. At the event, titled “Political Transformation and Regional Order,” several participants criticized what they described as the concentration of power and a highly centralized system of governance in Afghanistan, arguing that it […]

Il y a des expressions qui connaissent une histoire singulière, et le signifiant «capitalisme d’État» est sans doute l’un des plus élastiques de la science politique de notre temps. Lorsqu’il s’agit en Occident de nommer la Chine contemporaine, d’en donner une représentation savante, ou, pour employer un langage marxiste, de désigner la formation sociale qui la caractérise, voilà que le […]