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Israel’s new Gulf relations give Biden’s team a new Middle East hub
November became a turning point for Israel’s new ties with Gulf states. It began with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announcing a $23 billion deal that…
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President Gotabaya Can Achieve Where Other Leaders Failed
Despite its small size Sri Lanka has occasionally been prominent on the world scene for both good reasons and bad. Sri Lanka gained much positive publicity…
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Iran is the secret match maker in Israeli-Arab relations
Despite their own propaganda and rhetoric, the secular Arab regimes long ago figured out that the Islamists were a far greater threat than the Zionists. Iran’s…
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No transparency
MUCH like how in the past governments have changed overnight, so did the Removal and Blocking of Unlawful Online Content (Procedure, Oversight and Safeguards) Rules, 2020…
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What Modi govt can do to placate angry farmers and end their protests
Problem is Modi government has failed to explain how it intends to compensate those farmers and regions that will lose out if subsidies are eliminated. The…
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How the COVID-19 crisis can spur economic transformation
The pandemic represents a severe challenge for policymakers in Asia. They need a response that will help economies achieve a more efficient and fairer allocation of…
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Australia’s tricky China problem
"China is angry. If you make China the enemy, China will be the enemy." This was the message recently conveyed by a Chinese government official on…
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India and Blue Economy in the Bay of Bengal
India’s effort to harness Blue Economy received a boost with the establishment of the International Training Centre for Operational Oceanography (ITCOocean). The Centre will operate under…
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Donald Trump: how COVID-19 killed his hope of re-election
When Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19 on October 2 and was hospitalised a day later it was widely assumed this would put a major crimp…
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What is behind India’s ‘love jihad’ legislation?
This proposed legislation could not only marginalise further Muslims but also undermine women’s agency and rights. India is a triumph of the imagination: innumerable cultures, languages,…
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US withdrawal likely to boost Iran’s project to control Afghanistan
During President Donald Trump’s remaining months in office, it is expected that US troops will withdraw from Afghanistan ahead of schedule. As a result, several questions…
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Pandemic, ‘Great Reset’ and resistance
The billionaire class led by the WEF has a plan for the post-pandemic world order, but the needs of ordinary people are very different According to…
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Is Netanyahu moving towards autocracy?
In my opinion Israel’s “Reichstag fire” could come about as a result of a clear Netanyahu victory in the approaching elections I am currently reading a…
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3 Chinese scientists just said Covid came from India, Bangladesh. It’s politics, not science
If a scientist intends to politicise a pandemic, the most unscientific method would be the generation of populist theories without gathering further insight on their data.…
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Securing the EU’s Place in the World
In spite of the return of power politics, the hope for a rules-based international order is not dead. Relaunching multilateralism together with like-minded partners around the…
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How Trump Killed Political Blogging
Now that the mainstream media doesn’t shy from challenging false statements, there just isn’t that much difference between blogging and what we read in the newspapers.…