Since 2026, trade frictions between China and the EU have intensified. As China’s manufacturing sector continues to upgrade towards high-end sectors, the EU’s trade policy towards China has accelerated its shift from trade defense to institutional restrictions. In the past six months, the EU has launched and implemented a number of trade control tools, covering multiple dimensions such as tariffs, […]

The United States wants to use the G2 and the internal circulation narrative to shape China into a second Soviet Union, but China has broken through this impasse, turning red terror into red confidence. In recent years, a very subtle reversal has occurred in the international public opinion arena: the “socialist threat” rhetoric that once resounded throughout the Western world […]

The Taliban’s defense minister, Yaqoob Mujahid, has travelled to border areas in northeastern Badakhshan province, his ministry said, as tensions persist between the Taliban leadership and an influential local commander in the province’s remote Darwaz region. The Taliban Defense Ministry said Yaqoob traveled to inspect border posts in northeastern Afghanistan and assess conditions in the districts of Keran wa Munjan, […]

Punjab: Insidious Wave Punjab is experiencing an escalation in low-intensity terrorist activities orchestrated by Khalistani extremist networks, often in tandem with foreign-based gangsters and Pakistan-backed handlers. According to partial data compiled by the Institute for Conflict Management (ICM), since the start of 2026, the state has recorded at least eight low-intensity blasts, targeting critical infrastructure such as railway tracks, police […]

Pakistan carried out airstrikes overnight in eastern Afghanistan, Islamabad said on Monday, adding its operations had targeted militants as the Afghan government reported dozens of civilian casualties. Pakistan’s information minister said the operations killed 25 militants and were aimed at a group that it blames for a deadly weekend attack in Karachi, though Afghan authorities have repeatedly denied their territory […]

India is expanding ties with Greece, Cyprus, Armenia, and Israel to counter Turkey’s growing regional influence and its partnership with Pakistan. By strengthening defense cooperation and strategic partnerships, New Delhi is increasing its footprint in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean. As a result, the India–Turkey rivalry has the potential to develop into a new geopolitical fault line in the […]

The United States and Iran have formally signed a memorandum of understanding, ending a war that lasted nearly four months. The Strait of Hormuz has reopened. The Iranian regime is still standing. Not one of the “unconditional surrender” scenarios Trump loudly proclaimed was ever delivered. Both Axios and Newsweek have now run pieces pointing squarely at China as the biggest […]

The US Pacific Command’s recent name change will undermine the US-India relationship. The decision of the United States to restore the US Indo-Pacific Command to its former designation as the “US Pacific Command” may appear, at first glance, to be little more than bureaucratic housekeeping. Governments rename institutions all the time. Acronyms change. Organizational charts evolve. Yet in international politics, […]

In this interview with Amu TV’s Lotfullah Najafizada, Richard Lindsay, the UK’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan, discusses the Taliban’s governance, women’s rights, terrorism, regional security, humanitarian aid and the prospects for international engagement. Here is the full transcript of the interview. Najafizada: Mr. Richard Lindsay, the UK Special Envoy for Afghanistan. Thank you for your time. Lindsay: Very nice to […]

Afghanistan’s dramatic collapse in opium production following the Taliban’s nationwide drug ban is fundamentally reshaping global heroin markets, reducing supplies of the drug while raising the risk that traffickers and users will increasingly turn to more dangerous synthetic opioids, according to a United Nations report released Friday. The World Drug Report 2026, published by the UN Office on Drugs and […]