By James M Dorsey
This week’s attack on two mosques in New Zealand reflects a paradigm shift: the erosion of liberal values and the rise of civilisationalism at the expense of the nation state.
So do broader phenomena like wide spread...
The traditional mindset of India and China needs to be revisited to look forward to developing a fruitful and cooperative bilateral relations, according to Dr. Swaran Singh, a leading International Relations expert and Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University,...
“Four decades of reform and opening up had catapulted China into the second largest economy and the second largest defence spender in the world, besides its appetite having changed from strategic guidelines of Deng Xiaoping’s ‘keep a low profile’...
The Institute for Contemporary Chinese Studies (ICCS), Mahatma Gandhi University is organizing a two-day international conference on “Engaging Rising China: Strategic Options for Emerging India” on 15-16 March in collaboration with the School of International Relations and Politics (SIRP)...
By Martin Howell, Gerry Doyle, Simon Scarr
NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - High-resolution satellite images reviewed by Reuters show that a religious school run by Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) in northeastern Pakistan appears to be still standing days after India claimed its warplanes had hit...
By Robert Fisk
When I heard the first news report, I assumed it was an Israeli air raid on Gaza. Or Syria.
Airstrikes on a “terrorist camp” were the first words. A “command and
control centre” destroyed, many “terrorists” killed. The military...
Terrorism in the Kashmir Valley poses a significant internal security threat to the Indian state and has tremendous potential to trigger a military confrontation between India and Pakistan. However, the adverse impact of separatism and terrorism...
A Turkish-Chinese spat as a result of Turkish criticism of China’s crackdown on Turkic Muslims
in its strategic but troubled north-western province of Xinjiang
complicates efforts by Kazakhstan and other Central Asian states to at
best deal quietly behind...
The latest confrontation between India and Pakistan involving tit-for-tat air raids has heightened tensions in South Asia. To begin with, the suicide attack on a paramilitary convoy in Kashmir by Islamist extremist group Jaish-e-Mohammad killed...
The press has universally declared this week’s summit between President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam a “failure.” From the headlines of the New York Times and Washington Post to the...
