Why Is Turkey Involving Itself in Post-US Afghanistan?
In addition, after China, Turkey has been the biggest exporter of weapons to Pakistan.
Debates Heat Up As Iranians Elect Their New President
Read: China-Iran Treaty: Hydrocarbons Bring the Old Friends CloserRaisi is also sanctioned by the European Union.
Colombians Took to the Streets to Face Taxation, But It Will Not Stop There
Read: With US Investors Fleeing Latin America, China Steps InAll of this is happening in front of the police personnel with the evident complicity of the official forces.
The Quad and Japanese Nationalism: The Genie Is out of the Bottle
and China has been escalating, and is more and more referred to as a new Cold War.
Cryptocurrencies in the Middle East: Investment Surrounded by Risk
Most mining farms work in China, where electricity price is widely cheaper than in Europe and the U.
The Great Reconfiguration of Global Supply Chains
plans to undermine China’s standing in the international order.
India and Pakistan: Are the Two Rivals Becoming Friends?
is intended to contain China as its hegemony is under threat.
The Great Turan: Russia’s Concerns about Turkey’s Growing Reputation in Caucasus and Central Asia
Read: Why Russia and China Protect Myanmar’s Military Regime
Russian elites are concerned that in the case of internal crises, these sentiments (separatism/secessionism) could recur, now under the banner of pan-Turkic ideology.
Russia-Ukraine Crisis: War at the Door or Another Russian Roar?
Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States with a desire to contain Russia and China, contrary to his predecessor Donald Trump who is widely criticized for doing nothing to block Russia’s growing influence.
What’s behind Joe Biden’s “Armenian Genocide” Statement?
Why did Biden add another thorny issue to the bilateral relations between Washington and Ankara, which are already at a low, at a time when he wants to contain Russia’s and China’s increasing influence? How will Washington’s unilateral actions against Turkey effect that policy? And, most importantly, should Turkey consider Biden’s statement as a serious affair?
The horrific events that took place in 1915, during the last years of the Ottoman Empire, and how to identify them has been a problem between the U.
Diplomatic Expulsion: Resurgence of A Cold-War Era Norm?
’s greatest enemies, second only to China.
Russia’s Changing Relationship with India: Arms Talk
uring the Cold War era, the Soviet Union was a staunch ally of India, with Moscow viewing the sub-continent nation as a bulwark against China and a cornerstone to expanding its empire into the Asia Pacific region, where the U.
India and the S-400: US CAATSA Sanctions or a Waiver at the Door?
The hesitancy and the discord of the Cold War years have been replaced with growing strategic convergences, particularly as regards perceptions of an increasingly aggressive China.
An Insider Perspective on the Afghanistan Peace Talks
Colm Quinn, a foreign policy journalist, rightly reports that the letter indicates three ways for future endeavors to bring peace to Afghanistan: to “move matters more fundamentally and quickly” towards peace, holding ministerial-level talks between representatives from Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran, and India together with the United States to discuss a “unified approach”; a senior-level meeting between the Taliban and the Afghan government hosted by Turkey to take place “in the coming weeks”; and a proposal to implement a 90-day reduction in violence intended to prevent a spring offensive by the Taliban.
Ship Attacks in the Persian Gulf: Another Manifestation of an Iranian-Israeli Proxy War?
Energy supply and transit security
The role of energy diplomacy in the foreign policy of China, Russia, and the United States towards the Middle East is becoming more prominent.
Biden-Putin Diplomacy: A Push-Me-Pull-You Game?
But as Russia still dominates the post-Soviet space, borders with China (the top U.
South Korea in the Middle East: More Than Usual Business
Read: China-US Competition in the Asia-Pacific Will Grow Stronger With the RCEP
Korean Economic Ties to the Middle East
Korean influence in the Middle East is equally vital as in the field of the economy.
Supported by the US, Ukraine is Once Again Dreaming of NATO
Read: NATO Emphasizes Unity without Consensus but China May Change ThisWhile the political quarrel continues to escalate, videos appeared on social media showing NATO tanks entering Ukraine through Poland and heading to the front line.
Diverging Views on the Military’s Interference in Pakistani Politics
Asim Saleem Bajwa was appointed by Khan as the chairman of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) authority and Pakistan’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Bilal Akbar, is a former three-star general.
Separation in the Age of Remote and Robotic War
They index their progress according to sanitizing classifications of the human-machine interface that foretell a gradual yet linear ejection of settlers from the machinations of martial governance, progressing from “humans in the loop” where soldiers are involved in the selection and execution of targets, to the “closed-loops” of full machine autonomy where target identification and elimination is strictly an algorithmic process executed by mechanical agents.
