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 ...
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 and led the Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi Motors global automobile alliance, has been arrested on suspicion that he underreported his executive income ...
Under the Pakistani volcano
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
While Khan plays on a complex geopolitical chessboard, Chinese aid could be a financial lifeline as Islamabad faces off against deadly religious extremism
Paresh Nath
It has been a breathless week, huddled in the shadow of the simmering, ...
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 death as President Trump phoned President Xi Jinping on Thursday to turn the clock back to happier times. Trump openly sought to end the trade war ...
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 for the next three decades
Shanghai and computer connectivity. Image: iStock
The New Silk Roads symbolize way more than high-speed rail lines ...
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 heaviest in nearly a century – affecting 5.4 million people. What followed was one of the most successful rescue and relief efforts in India’ ...
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 sector and our goals'
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meet in New Delhi on October 4, 2018. Photo: ...
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 her struggle against Burma’s generals for democracy, and we assumed for human rights. Last year, when the refugees streamed out of her country ...
Greater Eurasia coming together in the Russian Far East
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
The Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok has become a crucial part of strategic integration between China, Russia and other countries in northeast Asia, a graduation assimilation set to transform the current world system
Xi Jinping and Vladimir ...
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