On April 22, India celebrated the anniversary of the terrorist act, one of the bloodiest in the last few years. Its immediate consequence was another Indo-Pakistani armed conflict. About the terrorist attack in Pahalgam The immediate result of the terrorist attack that occurred a year ago near the town of Pahalgam in the Indian part of the former princely state […]

En seulement deux mois, Ormuz s’est transformé en un laboratoire expérimental de dédollarisation et de multipolarisation économique, où la projection de puissance de Washington est sérieusement remise en question, comme jamais auparavant. Dans un paradoxe géopolitique clairement inquiétant, la guerre éclair que les États-Unis ont lancée contre l’Iran dans le but de projeter leur puissance en Asie occidentale et d’éliminer […]

Toplines The PLA Navy (PLAN) conducted two major deployments in the South China Sea and the West Pacific, respectively, likely in response to the ongoing Balikatan 2026 exercises in the Philippines which include US and Japanese forces. The PRC likely aims to demonstrate that Indo-Pacific regional military cooperation invites increased PLA military activity. The PLA’s Southern Theater Command (STC) announced […]

Informal talks between figures from Afghanistan and Pakistan aimed at easing Taliban-Pakistan tensions were held in Istanbul this week, with Qatar and Turkey facilitating the discussions, according to the Turkish aid organization, IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation. The talks, titled “Afghanistan and Pakistan: A dialogue in the spirit of Ta’aruf – 1”, were conducted under a “Track 1.5” format, bringing together […]

India’s demographic transition is underway, but its economic payoff remains far from guaranteed. IntroductionThe demographic dividend is the potential economic growth a country can enjoy as a result of shifts in its population’s age structure. India often finds itself at the center of discussions about this concept. Much of the contemporary discourse around India’s rise as a major global economic […]

L’arsenal nucléaire de la RPDC a dépassé le potentiel de base de la défense antimissile américaine. Il atteint aussi le niveau d’autres pays occidentaux et la RPDC pourrait en continuant sur sa lancée les dépasser. Pyongyang est maintenant capable de produire jusqu’à 20 ogives nucléaires par an. «D’après des rapports datant du début de l’année 2026, notamment des déclarations de […]

In a startling incident, a high-level American diplomat pressured South Korea into choosing American tech companies over Chinese tech, highlighting how America is trying to colonize the world of data and undermine the informational sovereignty of the Global South. In a pre-recorded video at an annual ease of doing business seminar organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea […]

A senior Taliban official has said that they are prepared to take additional steps to reduce tensions with Pakistan if Islamabad makes an initial move, as cross-border clashes continue. “If Pakistan takes one step, we will take two steps forward,” the head of the Taliban’s chief minister’s office, Abdul Wasi, said during a meeting with Richard Lindsay, the UK special […]

A new survey of Southeast Asian opinion leaders shows they prefer China to the United States as a partner, while the region’s biggest geopolitical concern is U.S. global leadership. The United States may have struck a fragile ceasefire deal with Iran, but the war has inflicted damage on U.S. relationships in Asia that were already strained after more than a […]

Despite its long alienation from the world, Pakistan has emerged as an essential mediator in negotiation efforts between the United States and Iran—suddenly a major international player. As the United States and Iran inch toward a peace deal, Pakistan has emerged as an unlikely but indispensable mediator in the negotiations. It has hosted high-level talks in Islamabad and shuttled proposals […]