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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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RCEP set to supercharge the New Silk Roads
Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
Ho Chi Minh, in his eternal abode, will be savoring it with a heavenly smirk. Vietnam was the – virtual – host as the 10 Asean nations, plus China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic ...
Can you smell what the Chinese are cooking?
Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
Less than a week before the game-changing U.S. presidential election, the real heart of the geopolitical and geoeconomic action is virtually invisible to the outside world.
We’re talking about the fifth plenum of the 19th Chinese Communist Party ...
Dalit Lives Matter! A cry to rage against the horrifying violence of Saffron Terror in India
India Civil Watch
In Hathras, cops barricade a raped woman’s home,
hijack her corpse, set it afire on a murderous night,
deaf to her mother’s howling pain. In a land where
Dalits cannot rule, they cannot rage, or even mourn.
This has ...
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Thousands of anti-monarchy protesters defy Thailand’s new emergency decree
- Shibani Mahtani شيباني محطاني
Thai protesters on Thursday gathered in the thousands to defy an emergency decree issued to put an end ...
COVID-19 and employment in India: why the definition of gig workers matters more than you think
- Bhavani Seetharaman ಭವಾನಿ ಸೀತಾರಾಮನ್ भवानी सीतारमण
Understanding how one single definition can spell doom for many in India today.
Before the COVID-19 ...
Mumbai: A year later, Zomato delivery woman held for verbal abuse still in jail
- Nitin Brahme नितीन ब्रह्मे
More than a year after she got into an argument with a traffic officer, Priyanka Mogre is still in Byculla ...
Hathras case in India: Being true to this daughter means confronting the caste system in her rape and murder
- Farah Naqvi फराह नकवी فرح نقوی ਫ਼ਰਾਹ ਨਕ਼ਵੀ
The state’s response to the Hathras case demonstrates once again, the resilience of caste as ...
China deploys Sun Tzu to win the chip war
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
Let’s cut to the chase: with or without a sanction juggernaut, China simply won’t be expelled ...
How Xinjiang is holding back an EU-China deal
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
The West that killed Muslim multitudes in the 'war on terror' is now shedding tears about the Uighurs' ...
India implodes its own New Silk Road
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
There was a time when New Delhi was proudly selling the notion of establishing its own New Silk Road ...
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