When Donald Trump pulled back on his plan to impose eye-watering tariffs on trading partners across the world, there was one key exception: China. While the rest of the world would be given a 90-day reprieve on additional duties beyond the new 10% tariffs on all U.S. trade partners, China would feel the squeeze even more. On April 9, 2025, […]

The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is eyeing Tamil Nadu, the last bastion of secularism in India. This south Indian State is the only one in the country to have consistently and successfully resisted the BJP’s Hindu majoritarian communalism and its anti-federal centralising policies. In the last decade, the BJP has spread its tentacles in Eastern, Northern, Western and […]

Trois singes sages sont parfaitement conscients de ce qu’un pigeon se faisant passer pour un aigle est réellement en train de faire. La frénésie tarifaire de Trump (TTT), digne d’une crise de colère infantile, désormais accélérée à 145% – et à suivre – est un nouveau coup de poker tonitruant d’un pigeon défonçant l’échiquier. Cela ne marchera pas. Trump a […]

The Trump administration has terminated temporary deportation protections for thousands of Afghans and Cameroonians in the U.S., a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said on Friday, building on Trump’s far-reaching immigration crackdown. An estimated 14,600 Afghans eligible for Temporary Protected Status will now lose it in May. Some 7,900 Cameroonians had access to the status but will lose it […]

A US defense official has said that reports of the United States taking over the Bagram Air Base and flying a transport plane to the town are “not true” and that “there is no US military presence in Bagram,” AFP reported. CIA Director of Public Affairs Liz Lyons also denied the claims that the agency’s deputy Michael Ellis has traveled […]

The spokesperson for the Supreme Court, Abdul Rahim Rashid, on Saturday issued a statement in response to remarks by the United Nations Human Rights Office, stating that no foreign authority has the right to interfere in the Sharia, religion, or judicial system of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA). The UN Human Rights Office had earlier described the implementation of […]

President Trump is launching a tariff blitz on the world for one reason: China. China’s economy is built on a system that distorts free trade. Determined to grow at any cost, China has been overproducing everything. It started with roads and rail lines, then moved to apartments and mansions, and now it’s cars, refrigerators and semiconductors. These goods are dumped […]

China’s latest round of military drills around Taiwan has once again drawn attention to one of the most consequential unknowns in global security: if Beijing invades, would U.S. President Donald Trump try to stop it? China’s Warning Shots and Taiwan’s Place Last week, the Chinese military’s Eastern Theater Command conducted two days of exercises around Taiwan, describing them as a […]

Introduction: China sees South Asia as its immediate neighborhood and a zone of influence. The rise of China is altering the traditional international norms and systems. Bangladesh’s geopolitical location dictates her foreign policy makers to treat India as a significant player in the South Asia. However, South Asia on the eve of the 1971 Bangladesh Crisis was “an area of […]

Why America Needs a New Strategy of Allied Scale to Offset Beijing’s Enduring Advantages Success in great-power competition requires rigorous and unsentimental net assessment. Yet the American estimation of China has lurched from one extreme to the other. For decades, Americans registered blistering economic growth, dominance of international trade, and growing geopolitical ambition, and anticipated the day when China might […]