Situation update
Analysis
The violence at the Capitol shows Trump’s seditious plot coming to fruition
In a scene that anyone paying attention for the last few years knew was coming, mobs supporting President Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol and used violence…
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Assange saga: Real journalism is criminally insane
Ultimate aim of the post-truth Inquisition of whistle blower Julian Assange is his termination inside America's gulag penal system Synchronicity is definitely fond of mirror wonder-walls.…
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World economy in 2021: here’s who will win and who will lose
The coronavirus has crippled the world economy. Global GDP suffered its sharpest drop since the end of the second world war in 2020, millions were unemployed…
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Chinese liberal intellectuals divided over Trump and the US elections
Liberal intellectuals in China are not a monolithic group. While the elites within the community once served to moderate divergent views, disagreements laid bare by the…
Situation update
Situation Update on COVID-19, 06 January 2021
Analysis
Biden’s security adviser gives a foreign policy preview
Incoming National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan suggests shifts in China and Iran policies and more engagement with Russia In his first media interview, the incoming US…
Analysis
Has a ‘fifth generation war’ started between India and Pakistan?
What do recent revelations about an Indian disinformation campaign against Pakistan tell us about regional dynamics? Earlier this month, the Brussels-based organisation EU Disinfo Lab published…
Situation update
Situation Update on COVID-19, 05 January 2021
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World needs to watch for these conflicts in 2021
The hotspots risk affecting regional if not global security architecture The year 2020 was probably the most dreadful year for the world since the end of…
Analysis
Pakistan’s angry political culture
THE political culture of a country always evolves. But not necessarily in a positive direction. As elsewhere in the world, politics in Pakistan has long had…
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The war for democracy is only beginning
Brexit was the first great battle in a far broader struggle for real people power. ‘The war is over.’ Those were Nigel Farage’s words when it…