Russian-Chinese relations are excellent and the two Great Powers have never been closer to one another in history, but that doesn’t mean that their partnership is perfect and without its problems, as the Baikal water bottling scandal recently revealed. A Sign Of Something Bigger? Somewhat surprising news recently emerged from […]
The response by most states toward weaker ones openly meddling in their internal affairs with negative intent and partaking in attempts to destabilize them via sponsorship of extremist and subnationalist armed groups would be likely be harsh on the diplomatic and quite possibly also military front. The Kabul regime lacks […]
In 1933 when Choudhry Rahmat Ali published the Pakistan Declaration titled Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?, he clearly understood the importance of creating a safe, stable and peaceful state in which the majority of Muslims living under the British Raj could escape from the growing Hindutva […]
At a time when China and the United States are facing a number of challenges in bilateral relations, it takes quite a feat of un-diplomatic agility to alienate both superpowers at the same time. But this is exactly what Britain’s political elite who want to remain in the European Union […]
During the lengthy discussions which led to the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement, economist John Maynard Keynes opposed fixed exchanged rates via-a-vis a gold backed US dollar. He instead proposed the creation of a super-national unit of account which he called the bancor. The justification behind a seemingly tedious accounting unit […]
Russia’s dispatch of S-300s to Syria was meant to distract from last September’s tragedy and wasn’t intended to be a “game-changing” military development by any means, but the systems have since taken on a cult-like following all across Alt-Media because there are plenty of people afflicted with a “savior complex” […]
Chinese Ambassador to Turkey Deng Li has announced that by 2021, China seeks to double foreign direct investments into Turkey with a goal of reaching $6 billion. China and Turkey also look to work together to boost tourism between the two countries. As a key participant in the Belt and […]
The US, Russia, China and Iran have at one time or another been opponents of the Afghan Taliban. And yet today, the blindingly obvious truth acknowledged by all of the aforementioned nations is that peace in Afghanistan is impossible without the Taliban being a central element of a peace process. […]
Rappler CEO Maria Ressa has been released on bail after being arrested on charges linked to the anti-dummy law against securities fraud. Like clockwork, Ressa’s rich and powerful friends on the international liberal media circuit began posting articles and social media updates which decried a supposed “lack of press freedom” […]
Algeria is in the midst of a political crisis as the 82 year old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced early this year that he would seek a further term in office. Although Bouteflika fought in Algeria’s war of liberation against France and later guided the country to victory its difficult civil […]