With the leaders of Russia, Iran, and North Korea watching, Beijing conducted a massive parade on Wednesday, demonstrating the results of a years-long effort by the Chinese Communist Party to build a military it hopes can defeat the United States in the Pacific. Beijing’s growing prowess has eroded American security and increased the likelihood of war in the Taiwan Strait, […]
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China’s SCO Summit Highlights West’s Growing Ideological Isolation, + Zelensky’s Desperate Gambit
Last week Zelensky made the curious decision to open up the borders to Ukraine’s 18-22 year old males. The decision was met with both approval and disgust in different quarters of the country: The bigger question is why did Zelensky “liberate” such a vital age group at a time when manpower is at critical lows on the front? Astute observers […]
Read more ›In Latest Kashmir Crackdown, India Targets Ideas
When regional authorities announced a sweeping list of book bans in Kashmir, the disputed territory at the heart of a recent military conflict between India and Pakistan, veteran journalist Anuradha Bhasin soon learned his book was among the newly prohibited titles. Published in 2022, A Dismantled State: The Untold Story of Kashmir After Article 370 examines growing repression in Kashmir […]
Read more ›Tracks to Nowhere: A New Railway in Indian-Administered Kashmir
In Indian-administered Kashmir, the new Vande Bharat train glides into Srinagar railway station like a kept promise made visible. Its horn cuts clean through the morning air, scattering a few birds as a curious crowd edges closer — until a policeman in crisp khaki steps forward to remind them, gently but firmly, to stay behind the yellow line. A few […]
Read more ›Putin calls Xi ‘dear friend’ at Russia-China summit in Beijing
Chinese leader Xi Jinping welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin as an “old friend” as the two held a series of meetings Tuesday at a time when their countries face both overlapping and differing challenges from the United States. Relations between China and Russia have deepened in recent years, particularly following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. U.S. President […]
Read more ›The SCO Finally Condemned The Pahalgam Terrorist Attack
The recent Sino-Indo rapprochement, which was inadvertently brought about by the US, accounts for why this year’s Chinese host agreed to include this in the Tianjin Declaration unlike how it was conspicuously omitted from late June’s SCO Defense Ministers’ draft statement. The Tianjin Declaration that emerged from this year’s SCO Leaders’ Summit in that namesake Chinese city included condemnation of […]
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Northeast: Narco-Terrorism Nexus On August 30, 2025, three persons – Neeraj Kumar (26), Jyoti Kumari (25) and Hashna Begum (26) – were arrested at the Agartala Railway Station in West Tripura District of Tripura after Police seized 29.140 kilograms of cannabis valued at around INR 400,000 from their possession. On August 29, 2025, Assam Rifles, in a joint operation with […]
Read more ›Russie-Chine : de la mémoire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale à la synergie BRICS/OCS
Trois dates – étroitement liées – qui nous attendent pourraient être déterminantes pour façonner la prochaine configuration de l’échiquier géopolitique actuellement en pleine effervescence. Ensemble, ces trois dates couvrent tout le spectre du partenariat stratégique entre la Russie et la Chine, les aspects géopolitiques et géoéconomiques de plus en plus interdépendants de l’intégration eurasiatique et de la solidarité du Sud […]
Read more ›Thai-Cambodian Border Clashes Help Revive Hun Sen’s Power
Although he stepped down as prime minister and de facto dictator in 2023, after more than three decades running Cambodia with an iron hand, Hun Sen has remained the most powerful actor in the country. He still, according to virtually every Cambodian politician and analyst, remains more powerful than the current prime minister, Hun Manet, the son of Hun Sen. […]
Read more ›China Is Worried About Dollar-Backed Stablecoins
The power to control access to money is no longer the exclusive privilege of the sovereign. Increasingly, the rules governing how money is created, moves, and is held are enforced not by governments alone but by code, online networks, and protocols beyond the authority of any single nation. The U.S. GENIUS Act—short for Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. […]
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