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Balanced foreign policy while dealing with China and India
The concept of ‘balanced foreign policy’ is indeed confusing and stands it more confusing and oscillating when a such asking arises during a war-like situation between…
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The Perils of Perestroika: Why Putin Chose to Prolong His Rule
To build his regime, Putin manipulated his predecessors’ crumbling institutions and the country’s economic system. Now, Putin must become his own successor—or let someone else pull…
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Iran-China Agreement: Will It impact India’s Regional Connectivity Efforts?
After a period of over four months, transit trade with Afghanistan via the Wagah-Attari land crossing (boundary separating India and Pakistan) has resumed recently. Trading through…
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Brahmaputra dams: A China-India political quagmire
China's dam-building threatens to choke off the flow of one of India’s most important rivers Dechen Palmo Both the 12th and 13th Five-Year Plans adopted by…
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Pakistan’s economic policies
The economic might of a nation is dependent upon the success or failure of economic management, ultimately determining where it stands in the global community. What…
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How US’ new China policy might affect the Gulf
The closures of the Chinese consulate in Houston and the US consulate in Chengdu in the last week were the latest signs of the deteriorating China-US…
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As Uighur abuses condemned, Southeast Asia’s silence is deafening
As fresh evidence of alleged rights abuses committed against the Uighur in China's Xinjiang province emerges, much of the world has called out Beijing for its…
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Dissent and State Repression
Let’s begin with the known. On Tuesday, July 21, a senior journalist, Matiullah Jan, was abducted by some people wearing the Elite police uniform from outside…
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Stop complaining, start contributing
Whether you see the glass as half empty or half full, it is time to take action and move ahead Anil Chitrakar The People’s Movement in…
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Economics and the culture war
Economics’ detachment from culture can be regarded as a serious shortcoming in understanding human behaviour. Robert Skidelsky I have long criticised economics for its lack of…
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Europe Rescues Itself
Once again, the European Union has shown that it is capable of rising to the occasion and coming to the assistance of Europeans in a time…
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Why recovery will be delayed
One of the reasons is that what had been a gradual decline in poverty since 1992 is about to take off in an upward direction Rashed…
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Hong Kong’s Ethnic Minorities Confront New National Security Law
‘Uncertainty and a sense of the unknown’ Jay Ganglani Ethnic minorities in Hong Kong who often confront language and cultural barriers now face new challenges in…
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Bangladesh silencing voices with Digital Security Act
The law, in force since 2018, muzzles dissent and criticism of the ruling Awami League Sabria Chowdhury Balland “If all mankind minus one were of one…
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We must listen to the voices from the frontlines of the pandemic
One of the distinguishing features of the global Covid-19 pandemic has been to expose who the frontline workers around the world are and who the frontline…
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A question of governance
WHILE the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage across the world, the faltering response of many governments has sparked a lively global debate about why some countries…