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From the enigmatic Easter Island in the East to the dying Aral Sea in the West, Asia is a land of contrasts: two great civilizations – India and China – deserts, hugely populated areas and a great number of indigenous people struggling for their survival.
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India’s Communists and the elections of 2019: only an alternative agenda can defeat the right-wing
Interview with Brinda Karat
Tricontinental
Ahead of the 2019 elections in India — the largest exercise of electoral democracy in the world– Brinda Karat of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) discusses the current political context in the country and the left-led resistance ...
The new Great Game on the Roof of the World: On the road in the Karakoram
Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
CPEC involves road and rail projects, dams and a pipeline from Gwadar to Xinjiang, but it is very long-term endeavor as a visit to the country revealed
The glorious view of the Hunza Valley and snow-capped mountains from the top of Baltit Fort. ...
A practical approach to Meng Wanzhou's case
Kong Qingjiang 孔清江
The unusual arrest of Meng Wanzhou, a Chinese national, by the Canadian authorities at the request of the United States, triggered worries and even anger among the Chinese people. Meng, chief financial officer of Huawei, a Chinese Telecom giant, was ...
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Nissan must rebuild its governance
- The Japan Times
Carlos Ghosn, who reigned over Nissan Motor Co. for nearly two decades after reviving the major automaker ...
Under the Pakistani volcano
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
While Khan plays on a complex geopolitical chessboard, Chinese aid could be a financial lifeline as ...
Narendra Modi buries India’s ‘unipolar predicament’
- MK Bhadrakumar
This weekend held out surprises on two counts. One, the spectre of a US-China New Cold War met sudden ...
New Silk Roads define brand China
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
Belt and Road Initiative is a strategic axis embodying the organizing Chinese foreign policy concept ...
India: How Kerala fought the heaviest deluge in nearly a century
- Tricontinental
During the summer of 2018, the Indian state of Kerala was hit by severe rains and floods – the ...
S-400s don’t solve India’s geostrategic dilemma
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
But Modi emphasizes that Russia has always 'stood shoulder-to-shoulder with India in the energy ...
Will there ever be Justice for Rohingya muslims?
- Arshad M. Khan
There is an image engraved in our minds of a stoic, reserved, elegant Aung San Suu Kyi unbending in ...
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